D. Ali says:
... we still need what God himself has outlined, even in any sin, serious sin, there must be two witnesses to that. So we - sorry, your Honour, but we can't ignore divine law.
And goes on:
Well, it is rational. Well, see, we believe, rationally, that divine law establishes - and it is a higher law in that respect - that from the time of Moses, for example, Deuteronomy, I believe, 19:15, establishes that even the most serious sin requires not one witness, but two, and coming into the first century that same law continued to apply. How can we ignore it?
So the bible doen't speak about "serious sin" in this rule:
(Deuteronomy 19:15) . . .No single witness may convict another for any error or any sin that he may commit. On the testimony of two witnesses or on the testimony of three witnesses the matter should be established.
But he does not speak about this divine law (Why god gave this law? Does he know, that a rape mostly has no second witness?):
(Deuteronomy 22:25-27) 25 “If, however, it is in the field that the man found the girl who was engaged, and the man grabbed hold of her and lay down with her, the man who lay down with her must also die by himself, 26 and to the girl you must do nothing. The girl has no sin deserving of death, because just as when a man rises up against his fellowman and indeed murders him, even a soul, so it is with this case. 27 For it was in the field that he found her. The girl who was engaged screamed, but there was no one to rescue her.
A good evidence here, that this elder don't follow the bible. He follows man made rules.