DISAPPOINTED with the lack of action from the police, kindergarten teacher M. Indira Gandhi has turned to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and the National Security Council for answers on the whereabouts of her missing daughter.

Indira said she wants the help of Muhyiddin and the NSC in locating 13-year-old Prasana Diksa, who was snatched by her ex-husband while still a baby.

She said that Indira Gandhi Action Team (Ingat) had sent a letter on May 26 requesting a meeting with Muhyiddin and the NSC.

“We have been dealing too many times with the police but there are no updates. We want to meet with him and the NSC to get a response on Prasana’s whereabouts.

“We don’t want this matter to drag on any longer as I have not seen or spoken to Prasana,” she said after a press conference today.

Indira said that it had been too long that she had been separated from her daughter.

“Any mother should not be going through this. There are no religious issues here but only a mother who wants to be united with her daughter.”

Ingat chairman Arun Dorasamy said that they have exhausted all dealings with the police in locating Prasana.

“We will pursue the meeting with Muhyiddin and NSC. This matter has gone on for too long.

“We did not get much co-operation from the police. We must exhaust all means to get Prasana back to her mother, according to the ruling by Ipoh High Court.”

Meanwhile, Indira’s lawyer Rajesh Nagarajan said today Kuala Lumpur High Court had heard two interlocutory applications.

He said the first application was filed by the Attorney-General Chambers that was acting for Inspector-General of Police and police.

“They (AGC) filed a striking out application, so we are opposing it.

“They are saying that we don’t have a valued course of action to institute the lawsuit.

“The lawsuit is against IGP for nonfeasance, basically not doing anything.”

Rajesh said the second interlocutory application is for IGP to answer to the interrogatories (simple questions) posed by Indera.

“These are simple questions, such as where is Prasana or where is Muhammad Riduan Abdullah (Indira’s ex-husband).”

He said that high court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali fixed July 16 for a decision on whether to allow the government to strike out Indira’s lawsuit.

Indira is looking to be reunited with her youngest child, Prasana, who was snatched by her estranged husband, Riduan, in 2009.

In 2014, Riduan, a Muslim convert, was ordered by Ipoh High Court to return Prasana but failed to do so, leading to a mandamus order by the court compelling the then IGP to arrest him.

Indira is also suing former IGP Abdul Hamid Bador for RM100 million for failing to locate her daughter.

Riduan made off with Prasana 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.

The court granted Indira custody of her three children after finding their conversion to be unlawful. – June 22, 2021.