Kuala Lumpur, June 25: The sudden death of Malaysian Mohan Singh, 41, came as a shock to his family. But worse was the nightmare that followed: the country's religious authority confiscated the body, saying the man converted to Islam in 1992 and had to be buried according to Muslim rites.
"He was a practising Sikh until the end," his family protested, but without much success. The family is still fighting for Singh's remains in court.
Singh's is only the latest in a series of "body-snatching" cases, as they are labelled by those affected, a practice which deeply divides Malaysia's multicultural and multi-religious society.
