Indira’s group places RM10,000 bounty on Riduan

Mohd Riduan Abdullah, former husband of kindergarten teacher Indira Gandhi. (File pic)

PETALING JAYA: The Indira Gandhi Action Team known as Ingat is offering a reward of RM10,000 to public transport drivers and food delivery men for information leading to the arrest of kindergarten teacher M Indira Gandhi’s former husband Muhammad Riduan Abdullah.

The group’s chairman, Arun Doraisamy, said the reward of RM10,000 was also available to Northern Express bus drivers who often travel to Thailand.

Arun said the group has hired an investigating team to track down fugitive Riduan and Indira’s daughter Prasana who has been missing for the past 10 years.

Riduan (formerly known as Patmanathan Krishnan) had unilaterally converted his three children to Islam, which was overturned by the courts after a decade-long legal battle by Indira. The courts awarded her custody of all three children.

Arun Doraisamy is head of the Indira Gandhi Action Team (or Ingat).

Arun said Riduan had remarried and the second wife was in frequent contact with him, adding that those with knowledge of Riduan’s whereabouts but who failed to inform the police could face action under the Penal Code.

He said the group would give the Special Task Force of the Royal Malaysia Police information on any new developments to assist in arresting Riduan.

Arun’s group welcomed an announcement by the Inspector-General of Police, Abdul Hamid Bador, that police would double their efforts in tracing Riduan and his daughter Prasana.

Hamid said he wanted to see a “happy ending” to the sad case.

Indira was called in by the police in Ipoh last week to clarify her report at the Petaling Jaya district police headquarters in which she said she suspected groups friendly with PAS, southern Thailand separatists and “mualaf” followers of preacher Zakir Naik of being involved in protecting Riduan. - FMT