IPOH, MALAYSIA - Housewife Zuraida Zainul Abidin had a shock of her life when her house was raided by three religious officers in the early hours of Friday morning.

She said that at 4am that day she was breast-feeding her three-month-old baby when she heard noises at the front gate of her house in Pusing.

"I thought it was my husband returning but when I opened the door, it was three men from the Perak Religious Department," said Zuraida, 28, at the office of her lawyer Ranjit Singh Sandhu, whom she had consulted

The three Batu Gajah-based officers told her they were searching for immoral activities but could not find anything.

She immediately lodged a report at the Pusing police station after relating the incident to her 39-year-old husband, Mior Baderus Hisham, who is a security guard at a nearby factory.

Zuraida, who has three young children, said that because of the raid her husband suspected her of having extra-marital affairs.

She said the officers should have done a proper investigation before conducting a search.

Ranjit Singh questioned the legality of the search and asked why the police were not called to accompany the three officers in the raid.

Perak Religious Department director Datuk Jamry Sury, when contacted, said he would investigate the complaint before taking appropriate action.