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Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Elangesvaran’s case is still unsolved as reported by Malaysiakini. The religious authorities did something cowardly – they sneaked off to the Syariah court and obtained an order that the deceased was a convert. The deceased’s family are not represented in the religious court Even though precedence exists where non-Muslim families fought their cases in islamic court, its very rare due to the constitutional rights of individuals. Knowing that the deceased’s family won’t be approaching the islamic court or may have not even thought of such idea, these people did this embarassing and despicable act. Such actions only serve to undermine their religion in the eyes of other Malaysians.
On the family’s part, they declared to fight on for the rights to claim the body of the deceased. Says the deceased’s brother, Selvam:
We will fight this all the way as my brother never told us anything about his conversion,” he said. “We have yet to get over his death and now we have to endure this… It is all just too much for my family
Given the success rate of such cases, we can only pray that the family gets justice.
Meanwhile, their lawyer – Karpal Singh is planning to file a contempt of court over the “underhanded” action of the religious authorities (i think the term hooligans is more appropriate) of running off to syariah court while the high court is hearing the case.
This is wrong and we are thinking of filing a contempt of court application against them
Those authorities should have just shown the proof in the the current court and get it over with. Don’t tell me they think the judge will be biased or such cases should not be heard in civil courts. Instead of taking a simple and clear path, they decided to make things more complicated. Can’t blame them since they just make use of the loopholes in the laws to their advantage.
We have leaders trumpeting about justice, Rukunegara, brotherhood, harmony, solidarity, love, freedom and so many other “nice to hear” words, but in reality? The fault is solely on those lawmakers for failing to set right the flaws in the changes made in the constitution. Rather than admitting their mistakes, they hide behind ambigious responses and brush aside any attempts to voice out the dissatisfaction faced by the communities. They have failed to provide remedies. For how long will cases like this continue to take up space in newspapers before something is done? One can only curse that they rot in their hell beyond eternity.
