KUALA LUMPUR: The Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council (MAIPs) has filed an utility to intervene in a divorce petition on the High Court right here between a single mom, Loh Siew Hong, and ex-husband Muhammad Nagahswaran Muniandy, who transformed to Islam with their three youngsters.
Lawyer Datuk Zainul Rijal Abu Bakar, representing MAIPs, stated in an announcement on Tuesday (March 8) the appliance was filed via Messrs Zainul Rijal on Monday (March 7) in order that the spiritual authority would have locus standi to apply for a variation on the phrases of the only real custody order granted to Loh.
In the divorce petition, Loh, 34, has been granted sole custody, care and management over their three youngsters, 14-year-old twin ladies and a 10-year-old boy.
Zainul Rijal stated as a result of the youngsters had transformed to Islam and registered in Perlis, MAIPs was answerable for making certain they get entry to the rights as new converts (mualaf).
“It can also be to give MAIPs entry to offering help, steering and training on Islam to the three youngsters, in addition to provide monetary assist from tithe funds and different help allowed by syarak (Islamic legislation) via their mom.
“Loh can even be given steering to increase her youngsters in a conducive atmosphere in accordance to Islamic legislation, however not restricted to solely halal and haram meals, but in addition concerned different issues,” he stated, including that regardless of being in Loh’s custody, the youngsters could be seen expressing need via their actions to stay in Islam and nonetheless practising the faith.
He stated the appliance to intervene wouldn’t deny Loh’s rights as the youngsters’s mom and MAIPs hoped that nobody would play the spiritual or racist sentiments to ignite hate.
“MAIPs would really like to emphasise that it doesn’t intrude or aspect with any occasion in the dispute between Loh and Muhammad Magahswaran and its function is just to deal with the youngsters’s welfare and be sure that their religion is safeguarded and that they get monetary, academic and social assist,” he stated.
On Feb 21, the three siblings who had been beneath the care of the Social Welfare Department had been launched to Loh after the High Court allowed the habeas corpus utility that she had filed.
In her discover of movement, filed via Messrs SS Thind on Feb 13, Loh named Nazirah Nanthakumari Abdullah as the primary respondent and an unnamed occasion that she claimed to have her three youngsters because the second respondent.
Loh is in search of a writ of habeas corpus or different applicable orders by the court docket to compel the youngsters’s speedy launch from the non-public custody of the respondents, and for the youngsters to be returned to her. – Bernama
