
Earlier in April, a strange criminal case received a similarly odd outcome. Zunika Ahmad — a woman who had passed off as a man for years and even had two wives and a daughter — was acquitted of sexually penetrating an underage girl using a sex toy and her fingers.
The presiding High Court judge had the case thrown out as he was convinced that the law of which Zunika was convicted (376A of the Penal Code) only applied to men, and was not applicable to someone who simply identified as a man.