Court: Both parents must consent to child’s conversion


PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has set aside the unilateral conversion of kindergarten teacher M. Indira Gandhi’s three children to Islam, ruling that both parents must give consent beforehand.

In a landmark decision, the five-man Bench, chaired by Court of Appeal President Justice Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin, unanimously ruled that the certificate of conversion of Indira’s three children was issued without her consent, contravening the Federal Constitution and the Guardianship and Infants Act 1961.

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