PETALING JAYA: The Court of Appeal today upheld a High Court decision granting Malaysian citizenship to six stateless members of the same family spanning three generations.
A three-man bench, comprising Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Azizah Nawawi and Court of Appeal judges Nazlan Ghazali and Azhahari Kamal Ramli, dismissed without costs the appeals brought by the registrar and registrar-general of births and deaths, national registration director-general, home minister and government.
Nazlan, who delivered the court’s unanimous decision online, said K Kamaladevi, her two children and her three grandchildren had successfully established their case for citizenship by operation of law under Article 14(1)(b), read with Section 1(a) of Part II of the second schedule of the Federal Constitution.