KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 — Hindu mother Loh Siew Hong today discontinued her bid at the Federal Court to stop the Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council from intervening or becoming part of her divorce case.
The Federal Court was scheduled to hear tomorrow Loh’s application for leave to appeal against the Court of Appeal’s decision this February to allow MAIPs to be an intervener in her divorce case. Srimurugan said Loh will instead be focusing on a separate court case, where she is asking the Court of Appeal to determine if her three children’s conversion to Islam in 2020 — by the ex-husband without her consent — was lawful.
“That’s the reason why we are withdrawing leave to appeal, because we are concentrating on the hearing on October 19,” he said.Separately, on Wednesday, High Court judge Hayatul Akmal Abdul Aziz is scheduled to hear MAIPs’ application to vary or to ask for changes to be made to the court’s custody order of Loh’s three children.
The ex-husband had in 2019 took the three children away while Loh was hospitalised with injuries which she claimed he had inflicted.