PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has set Nov 28 to deliver its verdict on an appeal by the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais) and the state government to reinstate a 35-year-old woman's conversion to Islam.
PUTRAJAYA: The Selangor Syariah Court has no power to hear judicial review cases relating to the decision by its state religious authorities, declares the Federal Court.
Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 02:02 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Rosliza s lawyer Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram argued that both the High Court and Court of Appeal had wrongly categorised her case as being a Muslim seeking to stop being a Muslim. Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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PUTRAJAYA, Dec 16 A Malaysian woman who was born to a Muslim man and a Buddhist woman was never a Muslim to begin with as the parents were not married and as she was an illegitimate child, and the declaration of her religious status as a non-Muslim should be made by the civil courts instead of the Shariah courts, the Federal Court heard today.