PETALING JAYA: There is no confusion in law that only the shariah courts have jurisdiction to hear cases involving Muslims intending to renounce their faith, a lawyer said, adding that the Federal Court had put the issue to rest three years ago.
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Kuala Lumpur: Two Selangor-born sisters have won a court declaration that they are Hindus and succeeded in their lawsuit against the National Registration Department (NRD) which had insisted they are Muslims.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 4 The High Court has declared a 35-year-old woman born in Selangor to a Hindu father and an initially Buddhist mother to be not a person professing the religion of Islam, ruling that her unilateral conversion to Islam at the age of four by her Muslim convert mother.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 The High Court in Sibu, Sarawak has recently decided that the government should remove “bin Abdullah” from the official records of the name of a child adopted in Sarawak, in consideration of the child’s best interests and in line with the adoptive Muslim parents’.