Civil courts can't rule on conversion cases, declares Appellate Court

comments     Zikri Kamarulzaman     Published     Updated

The Court of Appeal has overturned on a technicality a High Court decision quashing the unilateral conversion of three children by their now Muslim father.

The three-man bench headed by Justice Balia Yusof Wahi ruled in a majority decision that the Ipoh High Court did not have the jurisdiction to hear the conversion of kindergarten teacher M Indira Gandhi's children by her ex-husband...

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