Ipoh: A Malaysian-Indian woman, Indira Gandhi, was facing a fresh hurdle in recovering her infant daughter from her husband who has been granted interim permission to retain the child by an Islamic court. Gandhi's husband had converted to Islam and taken away the one-year-old girl from her.
Lawmaker M Kulasegaran, who is fighting her case, has challenged Perak state Mufti Harusani Zakaria's statement permitting Gandhi's husband Patmanathan, who converted to Islam last month, to keep the child.
Kulasegaran told The Star newspaper that the clergy's stand was against the Malaysian cabinet's directive issued last week that a child should retain the religion of the parents at the time of the wedding even if either of them changes faith.
A kindergarten teacher, Gandhi is trying to recover Prasanna Diksha who was taken away by Patmanathan. He is intent on converting all the three children to Islam, she said.
Gandhi has launched a poster campaign appealing to the public to locate her husband. She has distributed 5,000 posters.
"The callers give words of encouragement and tell us not to give up hope in our search for them," she said.
Kulasegaran said following the putting up of the posters, they had received at least 15 calls.
Kulasegaran believed that Patmanathan and Prasana are in Ipoh and that they are being "protected" by someone to sabotage the Ipoh high court's order.
Lawmaker M Kulasegaran, who is fighting her case, has challenged Perak state Mufti Harusani Zakaria's statement permitting Gandhi's husband Patmanathan, who converted to Islam last month, to keep the child.
Kulasegaran told The Star newspaper that the clergy's stand was against the Malaysian cabinet's directive issued last week that a child should retain the religion of the parents at the time of the wedding even if either of them changes faith.
A kindergarten teacher, Gandhi is trying to recover Prasanna Diksha who was taken away by Patmanathan. He is intent on converting all the three children to Islam, she said.
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Gandhi has launched a poster campaign appealing to the public to locate her husband. She has distributed 5,000 posters.
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"The callers give words of encouragement and tell us not to give up hope in our search for them," she said.
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Kulasegaran said following the putting up of the posters, they had received at least 15 calls.
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Kulasegaran believed that Patmanathan and Prasana are in Ipoh and that they are being "protected" by someone to sabotage the Ipoh high court's order.
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