Yazid Ramli – Contempt of court, breach of confidential patronymic information
Ahmad Zahid and Mohd Yazid Ramli are in a spot of trouble. Ahamd Zahid, our dearest buddy who has sept with an Indian wakakaka, is the Home Minister while Yazid Ramli is the DG of the NRD.
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Both have been attacked on two separate fronts.
Front No 1 is reported by MM Online’s Lawyers: Slippery slope if NRD can openly defy court decision where some extracts follow.
Any government agency’s refusal to abide by legal court rulings would damage the rule of law, said lawyers.
The legal practitioners all disapproved of the National Registration Department’s (NRD) rebuff of a decision allowing illegitimate Muslim children to bear their biological fathers’ names, saying this was blatantly contemptuous of the Court of Appeal.
Short of securing a stay of the ruling, they insist the agency must observe the appellate court’s decision despite contesting the outcome.
“The NRD’s decision to disregard the decision of the CoA is illegal and in contempt. There is no justifiable excuse as to why the decision of the CoA is not immediately adhered to,” Datuk Geethan Ram Vincent told Malay Mail Online when contacted.
He also criticised NRD director-general Datuk Yazid Ramli who said his agency will continue with the convention of using “Abdullah” as the father’s name in cases of illegitimate Muslim births, pending the outcome of the appeal to the Federal Court.
Geethan explained that Yazid did not have the prerogative to decide which rulings he would abide by or otherwise.
“His duty under the Births and Deaths Registration Act (BDRA) is merely to register births and deaths in the states of Peninsular Malaysia. He is bound to follow the law and nothing else,” he said critically.
Punishing people who are in contempt of the Federal Court, the Court of Appeal and the High Court is empowered by Act 91 (1964). Usually the punishment is a short jail term with or without fines.
I personally hope Yazid Ramli will be jailed for disrespecting the powers of the Court of Appeal. He must be taught a lesson that the civil courts are supreme in the judiciary and not a fatwa which is only advisory to Muslims.
Since 2001 and 2002 conservative Muslims have been misled by Mahathir’s Declarations of Malaysia as initially an Islamic State and then not only an Islamic State but one that was a fundamentalist Islamic State, both being illegal declarations that were arbitrary, unilateral and illegal.
For more, see Lim Kit Siang’s rant, rave and rage against Mahathir in his (LKS’) 929 & 617 Declarations. Today Lim Kit Siang has lost his matbles and is now kuai kuai keeping his big mouth shut tight in cringing obedience to Mahathir.
once arch-foes, now collaborationists |
That might have been why blokes like Yazid Ramli saw fit to ignore a Court of Appeals’ ruling to instead kowtow to a fatwa, which has no legal authority even among Muslims.
But Ahmad Zahid as Home Ministers seems to know no better in foolishly backing defiant Yazid Ramli’s insistence in following a fatwa which contradicts a ruling by the Court of Appeals.
As the lawyers warned, any government agency like the NRD in refusing to abide by a legal court ruling would damage the rule of law. Thus Yazid Ramli MUST be jailed to re-secure the rule of law in Malaysia.