Shariah lawyer Wan Faridulhadi Mohd Yusoff said Teoh Cheng Cheng never got her religion conversion certificate that stated she was a Muslim. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Hasnoor Hussain, June 11, 2014.The family of alleged Muslim convert Teoh Cheng Cheng, 38, has applied to the Penang Shariah High Court to determine her religious status.
Medelyn, her eldest child, filed the application yesterday for an order to check Teoh’s religion under the state Islamic Administration Enactment.
The Penang Religious Council (Maipp) has been named the respondent.
The family's lawyer Wan Faridulhadi Mohd Yusoff said Maipp was expected to file its affidavit in reply today.
He said Teoh had applied to Maipp to convert in 1997 when she and her boyfriend planned to marry.
The boyfriend, he said, filled in all the forms for Teoh, whose Muslim name was said to be Nora Teoh Abdullah.
"But the application never came through because she did not perform the 'sya'adah' (proclamation of faith).
"She also never got her religion conversion certificate that states she was a Muslim," he told reporters today.
He said the boyfriend will appear as witness in the case, which is fixed for mention today.
Teoh, who hanged herself on Saturday after an argument with her boyfriend, reportedly had four children. Three of the children are said to be fathered by the Muslim boyfriend.
Officers from the Penang Islamic Religious Department interrupted Teoh’s funeral on Monday and after obtaining her family’s consent, took her remains to the Penang mortuary pending the next course of action.
Yesterday, her family members sought help from the state government to get her remains back.
Her mother Tan Mah Suan insisted that Teoh was never a Muslim.
- TMI
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