Selangor Islamic Religious Council’s (Mais) lawyer Arham Rahimy Hariri said the date was set at a case management conducted by deputy registrar Norkamilah Aziz today.

“The proceedings will be conducted online,” he said.

Arham said the parties have been directed to file their written submissions by Oct 15, and a final case management will be held the following day.

On Nov 10 last year, Justice Shahnaz Sulaiman ruled that she did not have jurisdiction to entertain proceedings brought in the Shah Alam High Court to determine whether B Raguram died a Muslim.

She said that determination fell exclusively within the domain of the state’s shariah court.

Shahnaz noted that a statutory declaration which Raguram affirmed on March 2, 2015, showed that he had converted to Islam.

Dismissing the judicial review application, the judge said the only issue before her was whether Raguram was still a Muslim when he passed away on March 14, 2020.

The trio’s suit, filed in September 2020, had named Mais, the shariah high court and the Selangor government as respondents.

They sought declarations that Raguram professed the Hindu religion when he died and that the shariah court had no jurisdiction to determine his religious status.

They also sought an order prohibiting the shariah high court from giving the state’s religious council the authority to exhume Raguram’s remains.

The shariah court had on May 21, 2020, ruled that Raguram was a Muslim at the time of his death and issued consequential orders.