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KOTA KINABALU: A woman from Nabawan has lodged a police report claiming she was registered as a Muslim without her knowledge or consent.

Marni Pengeran, 38, was accompanied by her lawyer Sazalye Donol and brother-in-law Raymond Ahuar when filing the report here, supplementing a similar complaint lodged earlier in Nabawan.

She alleges she never applied to convert and only discovered her name listed as a Muslim after her husband came across a document prepared for a convert programme in their district.

Her lawyer argued the alleged conversion was invalid as no declaration or consent was given, and a mismatch in thumbprints suggests possible document forgery.

The family also uncovered a deceased relative was similarly misrecorded as Muslim, prompting calls for a wider investigation into possible systemic malpractice.