KUALA LUMPUR: A 41-year-old insurance agent has succeeded in her bid to challenge her unilateral conversion to Islam by her father when she was 10.
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High Court judge Datuk Seri Mariana Yahya in allowing the application by the woman – whose name is being withheld, said there was a prima facie case that needed further examination.
The decision was delivered via e-mail which was sent to parties involved in the case.
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The woman had filed the legal action in November last year naming the director of the National Registration Department (NRD), the government and the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais) as respondents.
The woman was born in Singapore to Buddhist parents in 1980.
Her father converted to Islam in 1990 while he was still married to her mother who did not convert.-NST