Child conversion: What the Federal Court previously decided


PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court had ruled in a 2007 landmark judgment that any one parent had the right to convert a child.

The apex court ruled in the case of secretary R. Subashini that the conversion of the elder son to Islam by the husband, albeit under the Selangor Enactment, did not violate the Federal Constitution.

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