KOTA KINABALU: The High Court in Sabah and Sarawak on Wednesday (Jan 7) allowed an application by Abdul Manap bin Bakusai @ Abu Bakar, and his three children from Pitas, to correct their Malaysian Identity Card (MyKad) records to reflect their Christian faith.
In delivering her grounds of judgment, Judge Datuk Celestina Stuel Galid raised serious concerns over the National Registration Department’s (NRD) practice of assigning a person’s religion without a proper factual or legal basis.
