INSPECTOR-GENERAL of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun said police will track down M. Indira Gandhi’s daughter following the landmark ruling by the country’s apex court on unilateral conversion to Islam.

“I will instruct my men to track down the daughter and also the ex-husband,” he told The Malaysian Insight.

“We have not identified the location of the daughter and also the ex-husband but we are in the process of investigating.”

Fuzi, however, said they have leads on Riduan’s location.

“We have some information, but I am not a liberty to say before completing the investigations,” he said.

The Federal Court today ruled the unilateral conversion of Indira’s three children to Islam is null and void.

The apex court’s five-man bench, comprising Court of Appeal president Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin, Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Richard Malanjum, Zainun Ali, Abu Samah Nordin and Ramly Ali, delivered the landmark judgment. 

Zainun, who read out a summary of the judgment, said the conversion will also need the consent of both parents.

“Consent of both parents must be sought. The article should not be construed literally … (It) requires the consent of both parents.

“The constitutional word ‘parent’ is a case of being lost in translation, both parents have equal rights.”

Indira had turned to the courts after her ex-husband, Mohd Riduan Abdullah had taken her youngest child Prasana Diksa, who was 11-months-old then after unilaterally converting her three children to Islam in 2009.

Indira had earlier secured a court to be reunited with her child

However, the then IGP, Khalid Abu Bakar, ignored the order as he claimed it was in conflict between the civil courts and their shariah counterparts`

The shariah court also issued an order in favour of Riduan. – January 29, 2018.