12 August
2013| last updated at 01:08AM
3 file appeal in conversion
case
NOTICE SERVED: Perak govt, 2 others seek to overturn
annulment of conversion of 3 kids
IPOH: The
Perak Islamic Religious Department, the Registrar of Muslim Converts and the
state government filed an appeal last week against a High Court decision which
annulled the conversion of three Hindu children to Islam.
The parties
are seeking to overturn the July 25 decision which ruled that the conversion of
the three children in April, 2009, by their father was null and void.
Notices of
appeal by the three respondents have been served on M. Indira Gandhi, the
mother of the three children.
M.
Kulasegaran, counsel for Indira, said the notice of appeal was served on her on
Friday here by the state legal adviser.
The other
three respondents in the case are the Education Ministry, the government and
Mohd Ridzuan Abdullah, who, after his own conversion, had unilaterally
converted his three children.
He had
converted Tevi Darsiny, 16, Karan Dinish, 15, and Prasana Diksa, 5, and
re-named them Umu Salamah, Abu Bakar and Umu Habibah, respectively.
He later
took away the youngest child, leaving the older two with their mother.
However,
Indira challenged her former husband's move and her application to quash the
children's conversion to Islam, which she filed in 2009, was allowed by the
High Court here last month.
Asked if the
other three respondents had served notice of appeal, Kulasegaran said no notice
had been served by them.
On Indira's
attempt to file contempt of court proceedings against her former husband to
compel him to surrender Prasana Diksa to her, he said the contempt application
would likely be filed this week.
Another Ipoh
High Court had granted custody of all three children to Indira after she
applied for custody in 2009.
The court
had also ordered Ridzuan to hand over Prasana Diksa to the mother.
However, he
had failed to do so.
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