NRD can appeal in Muslim child’s surname case

PUTRAJAYA: The ruling on whether a Muslim child conceived out of wedlock must use the surname Abdullah instead of their father’s name will be heard at the Federal Court.

This is part of the ongoing legal battle of a couple and their son, who filed a judicial review to compel the National Registration Department (NRD) director-general to amend the child’s birth certificate, to replace the surname Abdullah with the name of the father.