KUALA LUMPUR: The Federal Territory Islamic Religious Council is applying to strike out the test case where a non-Muslim counsel is challenging the requirement that a Syarie lawyer here must be a Muslim.
The council's lawyer Azmi Mohd Rais said his client is applying to strike out the judicial review on grounds that the civil court has no jurisdiction to hear the matter.
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