Johor Sultan grants audience to Illi Najwa who married Indian hockey player

Sultan Ibrahim Ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar. - filepic

JOHOR BARU: Johor’s Sultan Ibrahim Ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar has granted an audience to Illi Najwa Saddique who courted controversy in December last year for holding a marriage ceremony with Indian national hockey captain Manpreet Singh Pawar in a Sikh temple in Punjab, India.

Also present during the meeting held at the Mados office in Istana Bukit Pelangi here on Thursday (March 18), were state mufti Datuk Yahya Ahmad and Johor Religious Islamic Department (JAINJ) director Datuk Md Rofiki Shamsudin.