Experts welcome decision – with some doubts


PETALING JAYA: The Federal Court’s ruling in the S. Deepa case settled the matter of custody where one spouse in a civil marriage converts to Islam but other questions still need answers.

Sisters in Islam’s executive director Rozana Isa welcomed the ruling but said it only resolved the issue of a child’s custody, not of unilateral conversion.

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