THE Indira Gandhi Action Team (Ingat) has decided to postpone the 350km “Walk for Justice” following the conditional movement control order (CMCO) in almost every state in the country.

Ingat spokesman Arun Dorasamy said they will go ahead with the walk in January or February next year.

“Ingat is postponing the 350km walk due to the CMCO in Kedah, Perak, Selangor, and Kuala Lumpur.

“However, we are looking into rescheduling the walk to January or February, before the Chinese New Year,” Arun said in a Facebook Live session with the media.

On October 3, Ingat announced that Indira Gandhi will walk 350km from north Malaysia to Putrajaya in protest over what she claims to be police inaction over the abduction of her youngest daughter, Prasana Diksa, by her former husband, who has converted to Islam and took the name Muhammad RIduan Abdullah. 

To protest against the delay, Indira had planned to embark on a 12-day trek on November 21 from Sg Petani, Kedah, to Putrajaya to deliver a letter to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

Riduan converted to Islam in 2009, and then converted their three children without Indira’s knowledge. 

He left with Prasana, who was 11 months old then, but left the two older children. In 2010, the Ipoh High Court granted Indira custody of all three children.

Their two older children have since then stayed with Indira.

The Ipoh High Court ordered Riduan to return Prasana in 2014 but he failed to comply, leading to a court-issued arrest warrant.

The courts have also quashed their unilateral conversion to Islam by their father, a decision that was upheld by the Federal Court in January 2018.

In the FB Live session today, Indira said she is ddisappointed with the lack of action from the police.

“As a single mother, I had hoped I would be supported by the law and the authorities, but it is very disappointing. I do not know what to do.”

“I receive no communication from the police as well as from the special task force.” 

Indira had also previously planned a hunger strike in front of the federal police headquarters in Bukit Aman over their failure to update her on the case but called it off after Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador agreed to meet her.

Arun said Ingat is upset with the police and the IGP, as there has been no communication after a closed-door meeting between the two parties on September 2. – November 16, 2020.