Stateless man sues for right to be granted Malaysian citizenship


PETALING JAYA: A stateless man, who says he was born to a Malaysian mother in an estate in Perak, is asking the government to grant him citizenship.

Velmurugan, 38, who goes by one name and hails from Felda Sungai Kiah in Sungkai, said that although his mother Balamah and grandmother were born in this country, they had the term "Not Decided” stamped in the citizenship section on their birth certificates.

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