PETALING JAYA: A woman who is one of the plaintiffs and witnesses in a lawsuit related to unilateral conversion has lodged a police report against officers of the Kota Tinggi Islamic Religious Department for alleged harassment.
The woman is one of 14 who had filed a legal challenge at the Kuala Lumpur High Court on March 20 against eight state governments over state laws that allowed unilateral conversion without the consent of both parents.
"I am also a plaintiff and witness in the case," read her complaint filed at the Ulu Tiram police station on Thursday . Speaking on behalf of the woman, Agaman Ani's legal unit director Arun Doraisamy said the woman was a victim of unilateral conversion, where she had been converted by one of her parents, but had only practised the Hindu faith all her life.He said as the case is underway, it is for the courts to decide on the matter.
They named the state governments of Perlis, Kedah, Melaka, Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Johor and the Federal Territories as defendants.They are seeking for a court declaration that the state enactments which allowed the unilateral conversion of children into Islam as invalid as it violated Article 12 of the Federal Constitution and other matters interpreted in the Indira Gandhi case in 2018.
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