00:00The Ipohai court has ruled in favour of a 26-year-old man who sought legal recognition as a Hindu,
00:07stating there was no evidence he had ever professed Islam.
00:11Justice Bupinder Singh said the man who sued the National Registration Department
00:15and the Para-Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council
00:19never converted to Islam based on official state records.
00:23The man was born to a Hindu mother and a Muslim convert father,
00:27whose marriage was never registered under Sharia or civil law
00:30and who left the family shortly after the man's birth.
00:35Following his mother's death in 2007, he and his sisters were raised by their aunt
00:40and he stated that he has always practiced Hinduism.
00:44In 2012, he received an identity card with the word Islam on it,
00:49which JPN said was due to his father's religion
00:51and his 2021 request to have the word removed was rejected, leading to the lawsuit.
00:58The judge said the court was guided by the federal court's decision in Rosliza Ibrahim's case,
01:03where it was ruled that a person is not a Muslim without clear evidence of professing Islam.
01:09The court rejected MAIPK's claim that the identity card alone determined his faith,
01:15ruling that an illegitimate child cannot be said to follow the father's religion without legal marriage.
01:20Han Yujo, FMT.
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