While K Pathmanathan @ Mohd Ridhuan Abdullah was absent in the Federal Court proceedings over the unilateral conversion of his children, his former wife M Indira Gandhi wanted the highest court in the country to re-visit the 2007 case of R Subashini to correctly define the word parent to mean both father and mother.

This was to stop the purpose of unilateral conversion of the children by either one of the parent, as approval had to be sought from both of them.

The Federal Court in Subashini had ruled in 2007 that any one parent had the right to convert a child.