Science, Technology and Innovation minister Wilfred Madius Tangau, who is acting president of Upko, said issues regarding the judgment were discussed at the Cabinet meeting this week.

Tangau said that the ministers were not questioning the court’s judgment but felt that the decision “must be based on points of law and must not be due to other considerations”.

He was quoted as saying that “the Cabinet is very, very concerned about the decision of that particular case because of its wide implications. The Cabinet has made certain decisions and it involves two or three ministers to look into it.”

This morning, another minister, Azalina Othman Said, had said that a team of Cabinet ministers had met the Attorney-General to seek a resolution of the Indira Gandhi case.

The New Straits Times reported that the team comprised former law minister Nazri Aziz, health minister Dr S Subramaniam, who is MIC president, and Islamic affairs minister Jamil Khir Baharom.

The three ministers were reported to have been chosen by the Cabinet at its meeting on Wednesday and had met the Attorney-General the next day to find a resolution of the case.

A three-member bench of the Court of Appeal decided on Dec 30 to quash a High Court decision which quashed the conversion of her children and awarded her full custody.

The decision came on an appeal brought by the Attorney-General against Indira. The court decided that only the Syariah Court could determine whether a person was a Muslim or not.

Indira’s children had been converted to Islam by her former husband K. Patmanathan, who had converted to Islam and taken the name Muhammad Riduan Abdullah.