Deputy Kelantan Menteri Besar Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah has clarified that punishment for those who engage in unnatural sex such as necrophilia and bestiality falls under the offence of sodomy. 

"We cannot mention all that as all those things are included under sodomy.

"It's okay that it was not mentioned (in the amendments to the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code II Enactment 1993). What's important is that there is punishment for it (the offences).  

"When punishment for sodomy remains, it includes all those things, gay and lesbian; all those things are under the offence of sodomy. Sodomy is for all same-sex activities," he told reporters.

Amar was responding to reports that the said offences (lesbian acts, necrophilia and bestiality) were removed and no longer considered as crimes.

Offenders who commit sodomy shall be punished with the same punishment as prescribed for adultery.

For adultery, if the offender is married and has had sexual relations with his or her spouse before committing the offence, the person would be stoned to death.

Whereas if the offender is unmarried or married but had yet to experience sex prior to the incident, the person would be subjected to 100 lashes and one year's imprisonment.

Apart from this, there were also reports that anal sex between married couples was an offence and the husband would receive ta'zir punishment.

Ta'zir refers to punishment that can be administered at the discretion of the judge.

On this, Amar said punishment for a husband who sodomised his wife is under ta'zir to avoid confusion.

"This is for lawyers like (former PKR MP) Zulkifli Noordin who do not really understand things; that's why it became a problem.

"If we study syariah, we will understand. But for the public, it can be confusing, that's why we put it under ta'zir," he explained.

Zulkifli, in 2011, had claimed that PAS' hudud law will allow a husband to sodomise his wife.

Meanwhile, Mohd Amar also clarified confusion regarding the punishment for apostates, saying that offenders would be given the death sentence.

Confusion arose when the English and Bahasa Malaysia version of the documents pertaining to the amendment stated the punishment as "death" and "hukum hudud" respectively.