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Loh’s ex-husband fined RM20,000 for contempt of court

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Committal proceedings were initiated after Muhammad Nagahswaran Muniandy failed to comply with four court orders relating to custody.

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Loh Siew Hong, accompanied by lawyers Thian Yee Chin and J Gunamalar, at the Kuala Lumpur High Court today.

PETALING JAYA:
The Kuala Lumpur High Court has fined Muhammad Nagahswaran Muniandy, the former husband of Loh Siew Hong, RM20,000 for contempt of court.

Justice Evrol Mariette Peters gave Muhammad 14 days to settle the fine, failing which he will have to serve a two-week jail term.

Loh’s lawyer, J Gunamalar, said the judge also ordered Muhammad, a Muslim convert, to pay her client RM6,000 in costs.

Gunamalar said the court had granted leave to Loh last year to initiate committal proceedings against Muhammad for failing to comply with four court orders relating to custody.

He is said to have abducted their three children and converted them to Islam unilaterally.

Lawyer M Vhimal appeared for Muhammad, who was present in court.

Gunamalar said the High Court had, on an ex parte basis, given Loh an interim custody order on Dec 12, 2019.

This was followed by an ad interim injunction on Jan 7, 2020, an inter partes custody order on Oct 8, 2020, and, finally, full custody of the children on March 31, 2021.

Her divorce from Muhammad was finalised on Sept 23, 2021.

However, Muhammad did not comply with any of the orders. Instead, he is said to have taken the children to Perlis, where he unilaterally converted them to Islam on July 7, 2020.

The 15-year-old twin girls and an 11-year-old boy were placed under the care and control of preacher Nazirah Nanthakumari Abdullah.

Loh took out a habeas corpus application in the High Court in February last year. She named Nazirah and a religious NGO, where the children were being kept, as respondents.

The application was allowed by Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah, paving the way for a reunion between the mother and her children.

In March 2022, Loh filed a judicial review application to challenge the children’s unilateral conversion. She named the Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council, the state’s mualaf registrar, Perlis mufti Asri Zainul Abidin and the state government as co-respondents.

Justice Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh will deliver his ruling in that case on May 11.

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