Islam when she was a child.

An ethnic Indian woman in Malaysia is fighting to be recognized as a Hindu after being converted to Islam when she was a child.
However, the woman has denied charges by government that she converted to Islam when she was one-year-old.

Siti Hasnah Vangaram Abdullah, who likes to be known as S Banggarma claimed that it was impossible that she and her siblings were converted in 1983 as her younger sister, who is five years junior, was not even born then.

"Three of my siblings were placed in the welfare home along with me and we all have conversion certificates dated December 28, 1989. How could my father have converted us in 1983 when my sister was not even born?" Banggarma asked.

The claim by the social welfare department that Banggarma was converted in 1983 was contradictory as she was issued a conversion certificate when she was seven years old in 1989, her lawyer Gooi Hsiao Leung said.

He said they will soon write to the Welfare Department director-general and ask him to verify their allegation and furnish Banggarma with the documents they say are in their possession regarding an alleged conversion by Banggarma's father on Nov 30, 1983.