PETALING JAYA: The Ipoh High Court has set Aug 5 to decide on M Indira Gandhi’s leave application to begin contempt proceedings against the inspector-general of police (IGP) and his subordinates for their failure to recover her daughter, Prasana Diksa.
This was confirmed by Indira’s lawyer, Rajesh Nagarajan, at a press conference after the High Court heard both parties on the application for leave.
The government had opposed Indira’s application for leave to cite the police for disrespecting a 2014 High Court order.
Indira filed contempt proceedings as the police had failed to comply with a mandamus order issued on May 30, 2014 to recover Prasana and to file an affidavit every month together with copies of investigation reports.
She had previously filed a separate RM100 million civil suit against the IGP, the police and the government at the Kuala Lumpur High Court over the authorities’ inaction on the matter.
Prasana was taken by her father, Muhammad Riduan Abdullah, formerly known as K Pathmanathan, in 2009 and unilaterally converted to Islam.
On Jan 29, 2018, a five-member Federal Court panel allowed a declaration sought by her that no single parent from a civil marriage could convert their minor children though the spouse had embraced Islam.
Following this ruling, the certificates of conversion issued by the Perak registrar of muallafs to her three children – Tevi Darshiny, Karan Dinesh and Prasana – became null and void.
Indira and Riduan had entered into a civil marriage on April 10, 1993, but he converted to Islam on March 11, 2009.
On March 31, 2009, Riduan left the matrimonial home in Ipoh with Prasana, then 11 months old. Two days later, he unilaterally converted his three children by using their birth certificates and without the consent and knowledge of Indira.
The whereabouts of Riduan and Prasana remain unknown. - FMT
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