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hundred people came to the court gallery on the morning of 28 December to hear the judge's verdict. The High Court dismissed the application, stating it had no jurisdiction to determine whether
Moorthy had converted to Islam, because the Syariah High Court had already ruled on the matter. Upon receipt of the ruling, the hospital released his body to the Federal Territory Islamic Affairs Department, which buried him in the Taman Ibukota Muslim Cemetery in
241:, his elder brother, as the immediate family's only practising Muslim, had the right to claim this benefit, he agreed to sign a written undertaking giving up all his stake in it, so that Moorthy's widow and child could receive the full amount. The Armed Forces urged the private sector to provide his wife with a job; in 2007, she was 32 years old and reported by American magazine
268:, the former deputy Prime Minister who finished serving a corruption sentence in September 2004, pointed to the Moorthy case as an example of how the government "stifl non-Muslim's rights". One advocacy group for religious minorities said the verdict "showed the Islamic court is inconsistent in its protection of religious minorities", comparing the case to that of
164:, he fell during a training exercise and became paralysed from the waist down. According to his wife, his mental faculties also declined in parallel with his physical condition; he suffered emotional disturbances and short-term memory loss, and once forgot the way back to his house and had to telephone for help. Records of the
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Syariah Lawyers Association criticised the Federal Territory Islamic Religious Council for the original case, stating that it was improper for them to have filed an ex parte application at the Syariah High Court on the matter. The day after the funeral, Reverend Wong Kim Kong, secretary-general
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filed her own application with the High Court seeking an order that the hospital hand over her husband's body. As a result, the hospital decided to retain the body rather than release it to the
Islamic Affairs Department, on the advice of their legal adviser in the Ministry of Health. More than one
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Moorthy died at 11.10 AM on 20 December 2005 in the
Intensive Care Unit of the Kuala Lumpur Hospital, which he had entered after doctors noticed he was having difficulty breathing. He was only 36 at the time of his death. His widow filed for a court order to claim his body on 21 December, but when
260:. The court announced on 20 June 2006 that they would render a decision in September; however, they emphasised that their ruling would only concern the matter of the civil High Court's jurisdiction, and that they would not rule on whether Moorthy was a practising Hindu at the time of his death.
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state that he embraced Islam on 11 October 2004 and filed an application with his superiors to be registered as such on 8 March 2005; however, his military identity card was never modified to reflect this change of religion or his reported new Muslim name of
Mohammad Abdullah. His older brother
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On 31 January 2006, Kaliammal petitioned the Court of Appeal to declare that the High Court had erred in its earlier decision which concluded it had no jurisdiction to determine the validity of conversions to Islam. She had been hoping to exhume the body and perform a Hindu
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in recognition of his service to the nation, with the promotion backdated to June 2005. His widow received a death benefit of RM110,000, and continues to receive his sergeant's pension of RM947.33 per month. Though under
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National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF), also said, "We are uneasy. We are uncomfortable. We are feeling threatened." He added, "We are concerned that Syariah may one day be the supreme law of the land."
493:"A summary of the case and related events of Kaliammal Sinnasamy v Islamic Religious Affairs Council of the Federal Territory, Director Kuala Lumpur General Hospital & Government of Malaysia"
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she went to claim it, the hospital refused to release it in accordance with a 22 December
Syariah Court ruling that Moorthy had converted to Islam before his death, given in response to an
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Moorthy's family; the situation was brought under control by military police.
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156:, became the first Malaysians who climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, reaching the peak on 23 May 1997. On 14 August of the following year, while at the
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court to bury her as a Buddhist less than a month after the Moorthy case. The case also attracted attention in India, where the
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Moorthy joined the armed forces in 1988. He was one of ten people in the Malaysia Everest 1997 team among whom two members,
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Sivanathan, Ramesh; Manickam, Rajakumar (September 1997).
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