Insurance agent obtains court leave in challenge against unilateral conversion
An insurance agent succeeded in obtaining leave to proceed with a legal challenge against her unilateral conversion to Islam during childhood.
The Kuala Lumpur High Court this morning allowed the 40-year-old woman to commence with a judicial review to quash the conversion by her Muslim convert father.
She filed the legal challenge following the National Registration Department's (NRD) refusal to allow her to drop the term “Islam” from her MyKad.
The woman contended that her father unilaterally registered her as a Muslim when she was 10, minus the consent of her Buddhist mother.
Her parents divorced a short while after her conversion was registered at the Selangor Islamic Religious Department in 1990.
Parties in the legal matter were informed via email of the decision by High Court judge Mariana Yahya.
“Leave has been granted. The next case management (for the judicial review) is on April 8,” confirmed senior federal counsel Ahmad Hanir Hambaly @ Arwi from the Attorney-General’s Chambers, who represents the three respondents in the matter.
The respondents are the NRD director-general, the Malaysian government, and the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais).
With leave granted, the court will later set a date to hear submissions from parties on the merits of the judicial review.
Malaysiakini is attempting to reach out to the woman’s legal team over the matter.
Born in Singapore in 1980, the insurance agent, who now lives with her mother in Kuala Lumpur, said she never practiced Islam and that she followed Buddhism.
The Kuala Lumpur High Court this morning allowed the 40-year-old woman to commence with a judicial review to quash the conversion by her Muslim convert father.
She filed the legal challenge following the National Registration Department's (NRD) refusal to allow her to drop the term “Islam” from her MyKad.
The woman contended that her father unilaterally registered her as a Muslim when she was 10, minus the consent of her Buddhist mother.
Her parents divorced a short while after her conversion was registered at the Selangor Islamic Religious Department in 1990.
Parties in the legal matter were informed via email of the decision by High Court judge Mariana Yahya.
“Leave has been granted. The next case management (for the judicial review) is on April 8,” confirmed senior federal counsel Ahmad Hanir Hambaly @ Arwi from the Attorney-General’s Chambers, who represents the three respondents in the matter.
The respondents are the NRD director-general, the Malaysian government, and the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais).
With leave granted, the court will later set a date to hear submissions from parties on the merits of the judicial review.
Malaysiakini is attempting to reach out to the woman’s legal team over the matter.
Born in Singapore in 1980, the insurance agent, who now lives with her mother in Kuala Lumpur, said she never practiced Islam and that she followed Buddhism.
kt note: This probably means she did not ever follow Muslim dietary requirements, like abstaining from char siew and b-k-t
She claimed that in August last year, an officer with the NRD office in Ipoh, Perak, refused to process her application to revert to her original non-Muslim name and drop the word Islam in her identity card.
The officer had allegedly asked her to furnish an order from the Syariah Court before the NRD could process her application.
After the NRD purportedly refused to abide by a letter of demand issued by her lawyers, her legal team then filed the judicial review leave application with the High Court in Kuala Lumpur in November last year.
She is seeking multiple court declarations, among them that she is a follower and practitioner of the Buddhist faith.
The officer had allegedly asked her to furnish an order from the Syariah Court before the NRD could process her application.
After the NRD purportedly refused to abide by a letter of demand issued by her lawyers, her legal team then filed the judicial review leave application with the High Court in Kuala Lumpur in November last year.
She is seeking multiple court declarations, among them that she is a follower and practitioner of the Buddhist faith.
She is seeking a mandamus order (judicial order for a person to perform a public or statutory duty) to order the NRD director-general to issue her a new MyKad bearing her original non-Muslim name and with the word Islam removed.
She is also seeking the same order for the government of Malaysia to ensure the NRD director-general abides by the court order.
She is further seeking a mandamus order for Mais to remove her name from the Muallaf (Muslim converts) Registry, as well as to cancel the Islamic conversion card issued on her name dated October 1990.
It was previously reported that the three respondents objected to the woman’s judicial review leave application, citing among other reasons that the legal action should have been filed within three months of her conversion. She was converted on Oct 4, 1990.
kt note: She was unilaterally converted by her father at age 10. These idiots wanted her to challenge her unilateral conversion within 3 MONTHS after her father did it. Are they buffoons? Why have they unwittingly made their religion look so desperate in shackling innocent people back in their fold?
Welcome to the Hotel California...you can check out at any time, but you can NEVER leave...
ReplyDeletethe Rich n Green types have plenty of opportunities to check out anytime and anywhere..
hotel with great firewall characteristics?
DeleteMfer, goes check back what u have farted about hotel California.
DeleteKatak with schizophrenia characteristics!
Will Wee KHAT Siong help this poor Chinese woman? Will he try to convince the Minister of Religion, Minister of Law Taki-Yaki, the Home Minister in charge of Registration etc etc? This will be a wonderful opportunity to convince the Chinese to throw some telurs into his empty basket.
ReplyDeleteOr will he buat tak tahu and cower under the table?
will Guan Eng with 42 MPOs behind him, and safely within the Opposition camp, do it? Guan Eng will be the first to stay clear of Islamic issues whether in or out of govt, wakakaka
Delete42 kalah olih 13, wakakaka again
Guan Eng and DAP wisely stayed clear of overt Islam vs nons conflicts, as DAP already demonised as anti-Islam for 50 years, with MCA connivance ( MCA labelling DAP as "extremists")
DeleteHowever, DAP within Pakatan has pushed hard for Executive non-interference in the judiciary, and quite a number of judicial rulings during the 21 months showed judges willing to rule according to the Constitution instead of the past Race and Religion Supremacist requirements.
The Wolves and Snakes are now back in charge, so don't expect the rule of law to continue much.
Already loud demands from PUS and UMNO types that the judiciary must rule according to the line of "Negara Islam"
Menteri menteri tak layan Guanee, Parlimen tutup, apa dia boleh buat, tapi Wee KHAT Siong ada 2 MP, tarik support saja PN tumbang.....ha ha ha...tapi KT bagi MCA free pass...
DeleteVart lah, Indira Gandhi herself campaigned for DAP in GE14, Kula was her lawyer....so DAP was certainly not staying away from child conversion/Islamic issues even when in Opposition. I expect DAP will again come forth to defend this woman.
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In Ipoh, Indira Gandhi stumps for DAP’s Kulasegaran
Friday, 04 May 2018
By Loghun Kumaran
IPOH, May 4 — She is a kindergarten teacher, a wronged mother and a women’s icon.
And now, M. Indira Gandhi can add public speaker to that list.
The 43-year-old addressed a crowd of over 700 people at a Pakatan Harapan (PH) ceramah here tonight, in support of her lawyer and Ipoh Barat candidate, M. Kulasegaran.
While she did not touch on political matters, Indira spoke about her exhausting legal battle against the unilateral conversion of her three children: Tevi Darsiny, Karan Dinish and Prasana Diksa.
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These hypocrites!!! They worry more on the form of their religion, neglecting the substance.
ReplyDeleteI puty this woman. A loooong battle awaits her.