KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20 — Selangor's Islamic authorities and a Hindu family are currently still locked in a legal dispute in court over whether the late secondary school...
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20 — Selangor's Islamic authorities and a Hindu family are currently still locked in a legal dispute in court over whether the late secondary school teacher B. Raguram died as a Muslim or as a Hindu, almost three years since he was buried in a Hindu funeral ceremony.
Mais has not exhumed Raguram's body to rebury him, as his family is appealing the civil High Court's decision.s summary of why the civil High Court made such a decision, based on the 18-page written judgement dated January 6 by the High Court judge Shahnaz Sulaiman:Raguram was born and lived as a Hindu, but was purportedly converted to Islam on November 8, 2012 in a school in Selangor in the presence of two individuals.
He is said to have continued living as a Hindu before his death on March 14, 2020, with two teachers stated as having gone to the hospital and attempting to carry out Islamic funeral rites but ultimately leaving without conducting any such ceremonies as they were unable to show proof of his conversion to Islam.
On August 21, 2020, the wife and the couple’s two children filed a civil lawsuit through a judicial review application, naming Mais, the Shariah High Court in Shah Alam and the Selangor state government as the three respondents. In court papers for their lawsuit, Raguram’s non-Muslim widow and children say they are entitled to inherit assets left behind by him as his next of kin, and suggest the Selangor authorities are seeking to improperly and unlawfully obtain his assets for the baitulmal which would cancel out the family’s inheritance rights. The assets of Muslims who died without writing a will would go to the baitulmal.
The lawyer for Raguram’s widow and children argued any court order on his religious status would affect their rights as his immediate family. In that 2009 case, Mohan Singh’s family had challenged the refusal by a government hospital in Selangor to release his body to them for cremation according to Sikh rites, as Mais claimed he had converted to Islam in 1992.
As for Raguram’s case, the judge in her judgment listed several details regarding his purported conversion, including evidence from the two individuals who witnessed the conversion in 2012.
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