FRUSTRATED over the lack of answers from the police, M. Indira Gandhi will embark on a roadshow to share with the public the story of her decade-long search for her missing former husband and daughter.

She will make her first stop is Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, in a meet-the-people session on Saturday.

The following week will see her in Kluang, Johor, where she will talk about her crusade to reunite with her youngest daughter, Prasana Diksa, who was abducted by her ex-husband 11 years ago.

The roadshow is jointly organised by Indian groups, Indira Gandhi Action Team (Ingat) chairman Arun Dorasamy told The Malaysian Insight.

After Kluang, the roadshow will travel to Perak, Penang, Kedah and Kelantan. The dates are yet to be fixed.  

Indira, a former kindergarten teacher, hopes to enlist the public’s help in the search for Muhammad Riduan Abdullah, who is believed to be holding their daughter Prasana, now 11.

Riduan snatched Prasana as a baby after he unilaterally converted the couple’s three children to Islam. He is now in defiance of a court order to return the child to her mother.

Although the court has granted her custody of her three children after ruling their conversion to be unlawful, Indira is yet to be reunited with her youngest child whose whereabouts are unknown.

A special police task force was formed to find Riduan and Prasana but four months on, the father and daughter remain as elusive as ever.

Arun said prominent lawyer Ambiga Sreenevasan has taken up Indira’s case.

Ambiga confirmed this information but declined to comment further.  

This was no longer a case of unilateral conversion of children but a case of a missing child, Arun said.

“We want to create awareness about this case and at the same time plead for any information.

“This is no longer a unilateral conversion case but one that involves a missing person, which is Prasana.”

He said police should make it known if they have reclassified the case as missing person.  

“All we know is that the court has issued a mandamus order (for police to arrest Riduan) but no action has been taken.”

Police said they have no new leads on Riduan’s whereabouts. The Ingat team, however, said it has received tip-offs that he has slipped across the border to southern Thailand. 

Last month, Indira filed a police report claiming that followers of controversial preacher Dr Zakir Naik could be helping Riduan to hide Prasana. 

She said Riduan could also be aided by southern Thai separatists and PAS-aligned groups in Kelantan and Terengganu.

PAS has denied the charge.

Police later grilled Indira about her police report, zeroing in the source of the information about Zakir’s followers’ involvement to hide her daughter.

Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador said he was giving the case importance so that police could fulfil the court order and see the mother and daughter reunited.

Indira said: “I am glad the new IGP (who was appointed in May) is taking a personal interest in this case. He is more interested than the last IGP.  

“I’m happy that PDRM (police) is finally looking, when before, nobody cared.” – August 21, 2019.