Singer Siti Nurhaliza and her husband Khalid Mohamad Jiwa have both been compounded RM10,000 each for failing to comply with standard operating procedures (SOPs) during a tahnik ceremony in Kuala Lumpur.

Tahnik is an Islamic ceremony to celebrate and welcome a newborn.

Selangor police chief Arjunaidi Mohamed said the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of religious affairs Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri, preachers Azhar Idrus, Don Daniyal and Iqbal Zain were all fined...