PUTRAJAYA: The widow of Everest climber Sergeant M. Moorthy has lost in her final legal redress to obtain a declaration that her late husband was still a Hindu prior to his death five years ago and that he be accorded a burial according to Hindu rites.
Chief Judge of Malaya Tan Sri Arifin Zakaria, leading a three-man Federal Court panel, unanimously denied S. Kaliammal leave to appeal against the High Court's refusal to entertain her application to determine the religious status of her late husband on the grounds that the matter was under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Syariah Court.
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