INSPECTOR-General of Police (IGP) Abdul Hamid Bador has urged everyone to stop politicising the issues related to M. Indira Gandhi case.

He said many so-called “experts” have spoken out without considering the impact on the couple’s 11-year-old daughter.

“In Malaysia, even dead people are being politicised, without regard to religious and cultural limits. Everything is being politicised. So where is our dignity?

“We enjoy talking about this issue so we can score political points, so that we can be seen as religious and champions. Stop being selfish. Trust me, I sincerely want to resolve this case, so stop politicising it,” he told the press at Bukit Aman today.

Hamid said he disclosed a little information on the whereabouts of Indira’s ex-husband, Muhammad Ridhuan, recently as he had the information and wanted to resolve the issue immediately.

Ridhuan fled with his daughter Prasana Diksa in 2009 when she was only 11 months-old after he converted to Islam and no longer used his real name, K. Pathmanathan.

In 2016, the Federal Court ordered then IGP Khalid Abu Bakar to arrest Ridhuan and comply with the mandamus order issued by the Ipoh High Court two years earlier to retrieve Prasana.

In January 2018, the apex court also overturned the conversion of Prasana and her two older siblings to Islam.

Indira’s two older children live with her while Ridhuan remains in hiding with Prasana.

Meanwhile, on the transfer of Johor police chief Mohd Kamarudin Md Din to Bukit Aman, Hamid said this is because Kamarudin is a cyber crime expert from the Commercial Crime Investigation Department.

“It is time for him (Kamarudin) to be transferred to Bukit Aman,” he said.

In a statement issued yesterday, the police announced that Bukit Aman Special Branch Counter-Terrorism (E8) principal assistant director Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay has been appointed as the new Johor police chief with the rank of acting commissioner of Police effective March 6.

Kamarudin has been transferred to the Administrative Division of the Bukit Aman Management Department, also effective March 6. – Bernama, February 7, 2020.