File photo of M. Indira Gandhi speaking at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur October 9, 2020. — Picture by Shafwan ZaidonKUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — Lawyers of M.Indira Gandhi have sought yet another date in court over the case of her missing daughter, Prasana Diksa, this time asking the courts to again pressure the Royal Malaysian Police to play their part in the probe to locate and recover the now 11-year-old child.
The Ipoh High Court had seven-years ago instructed police to supply periodic reports within the first week of every month updating Indira of investigations in the form of affidavits. “In essence, the Notice to Produce is a demand for all the documents that have been mentioned in the PDRM Affidavit dated January 5, 2021,” he said when contacted.
Indira’s ex-husband, Muhammad Riduan, formerly known as K. Pathmanathan, embraced Islam in 2009 and converted all three of his children he had with Indira on April 2 that year without their mother’s knowledge. They had been raised as Hindus. Among the excerpts included in police’s January report was how the force, based on advice given by a Senior Federal Counsel representing the Attorney-General’s Chambers, is of the view that the 2018 Federal Court judgement had sufficiently quashed the requirement of them needing to supply monthly affidavit reports.