Indira Gandhi makes bid to recuse two apex court judges

Kindergarten teacher M Indira Gandhi has filed an application to recuse two Federal Court judges, Chief Justice Arifin Zakaria and Court of Appeal president Md Raus Sharif, from hearing the case on the unilateral conversion of her children by her Muslim-convert husband.

Ipoh Barat MP M Kulasegaran, the lawyer who is acting for Indira, said this was due to both of them being involved in past cases pertaining to unilateral conversions.

Meanwhile, the Federal Court has fixed May 19 on whether to permit Indira's appeal over the conversion be heard on its merits.

In other words, the apex court has fixed the date to hear Indira's leave application.

Senior federal counsel Shamsul Bolhassan told reporters of this date after attending the matter which came up for case management today.

The Court of Appeal had previously made the decision that the civil court has no jurisdiction to determine the issue of conversion as it is in the realm of the syariah court.

Prior to that, the Ipoh High Court had declared the conversion of the two children to be null and void.

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--Mkini