PETALING JAYA: Judges should be given blanket discretion over whether to impose whipping for penal offences which prescribe the punishment, a lawyer said.However, A Srimurugan said whipping cannot be removed altogether from the statute books as it still serves as a deterrent to would-be offenders.“Whipping is judicially sanctioned torture, so judges should be given total discretion to decide

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