PUTRAJAYA: The Syariah Court is not inferior to a civil court as both courts are recognised under the Federal Constitution, said a Federal Court judge...
: The Syariah Court is not inferior to a civil court as both courts are recognised under the Federal Constitution, said a Federal Court judge in his judgment in a conversion case.
He also said there was no authority to say that when a Syariah Court has heard a case and pronounced its decision, a civil court can subsequently hear, consider and come to a decision different from a Syariah Court. He said the Syariah Court has the jurisdiction to determine the woman’s case as it is clearly an apostasy or renunciation case.
In the minority judgment, Justice Mary Lim said the woman’s conversion to Islam was invalid as she never uttered the affirmation of faith. According to the woman, she was born a Hindu to non-Muslim parents and she was still a child when she was converted to Islam by her mother in 1991. Her father passed away in 1996.She said her mother married a Muslim man after divorcing her father and that despite her conversion to Islam, her mother and stepfather allowed her to continue practising the Hindu faith which she was born into.
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