Tuanku Ismail Petra Ibni Sultan Yahya Petra continues to remain the Sultan of Kelantan although he is incapacitated or absent from the state, the Federal Court heard today.

His lawyer Azhar Azizan Harun submitted that Sultan Muhammad V (Tuanku Muhammad Faris Petra) who was appointed the regent of Kelantan on May 24 last year, by the Council of Succession by reason of his father's illness, did not take over exclusively the role of the Sultan.