Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email The husband has filed an application at Ipoh High Court to set aside the interim order granted to Indira Gandhi last week and also to remove the injunction to prevent him from entering their house. The reasons given in the application are: (i) that the civil court has no jurisdiction over him, (ii) that he has obtained a Syariah Court order for custody of his children and (iii) that the cabinet’s directive on conversion issues was irrelevant. The application will be heard in chambers today.
The husband, Patmanathan @ Ridzwan is still hiding to avoid the court order. Even though private investigator was hired by Makkal Sakthi group, still can’t find him or the baby.
Indira had received many calls giving encouragement and support, but no clues on the whereabouts of her baby and husband.
According to her lawyer, Kulasegaran, they believe the baby and husband are being given protection by certain people, in order to not submit to the court order.
But the Perak religous department claims to be in the dark on the husband’s location.
Ipoh district police chief Assistant Commissioner Azisman Alias said Mohd Ridzuan last contacted religious officers on Friday, the day after the cabinet decided that children be raised according to the faith of their parents at the time of marriage, should a spouse decide to convert.
… Azisman said the department told the police that it would be referring the matter to the state legal adviser, as the High Court order was in conflict with the order from the syariah court.
“They have to wait for instructions on which court order to follow.”
Azisman said police were still monitoring Mohd Ridzu-an’s house and his mother’s house in Pasir Puteh, pointing out that he was still under police bail. But they would not arrest or force him to surrender Prasana Diksa to Indira.
“We will just inform the wife or the religious department,” he said, adding that the court order was only for the police to assist in the matter.
Perak religious department director Datuk Mohamah Nor Mansor and state legal adviser Datuk Ahmad Kamal Md Shahid could not be contacted for comment.
So, what will the court decide today? Is the convert still subject to civil court order or is the order in conflict with Syariah court order? Which order is to prevail?
Meanwhile, the government is planning to hold a meeting “soon” to iron out the conversion issue. So says Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Maj-Gen (R) Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom. It will involve several ministries (Human Resources and Women, Family and Community Development ministries) and religious departments, and perhaps even religious associations.
One wonders what Human Resource had got to do with parent converting and children forcibly being converted. Any calculation on manhours lost? Or is it because the MIC representative Dr S Subra is there? I really think its not the ministry which is involved, but just the minister who is representing the MIC who is supposed to represent the Indian community.
Who will represent us? MCCBCHST and MHS? MIC? Tamil Mamandram?
In order to proceed with the meeting, the minister wants to meet two other ministers (Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, who is in charge of legal affairs, and Senator Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon who is responsible for issues on racial relations ) to get their “opinion” on the proposed meeting. So, another meeting is needed before that meeting is arranged.
Q: How soon is the meeting?
A: Soon la. Soon means soon la. Which part of soon you don’t understand? All this takes time, this is sensitive issue. You asking irerelevant question. Don’t know meaning of soon ah? Go for English class before you want to ask question.
remember I told u…..all these are just wayang…..does this mean our PM is a powerless man? He is just a puppet? And the departments under him will do as they want/wish?
Hahahaha I remember police said they cant trace him…so how come the court accepted the application and not reporting it to the police about his presence?
So everyone is against the PM and the cabinet or the cabinet is just playing a WAYANG?
And if the application will be heard in chambers today and it is published, wht are the police doing? Playing balls?
I see this as Insult to Islam, if you have problem or u want to escape from thing … join Islam you can be protected (this is now I see as trend). If you have committed a crime and you are a MP or a ADUN…join BN case will be dropped.
Is this not an insult?