COMMENT | For years, I have been covering the case of M Indira Gandhi, a mother who has mounted a tireless and heartbreaking pursuit to be reunited with her youngest child, Prasana Diksa.

Sixteen years on, it feels as though justice has never truly been served for Indira, who still clings to a fading hope that the state will one day bring her daughter home. Prasana was abducted by her father in 2009, when she was just 11 months old and still breastfeeding.

Despite countless pleas, legal victories, and an outpouring of public sympathy, the wait goes on.

Prasana, now 17 years old, along with her two elder siblings, became pawns in a cruel tug-of-war sparked by Riduan Abdullah’s unilateral and unlawful actions, a saga that has since come to symbolise the frailties of Malaysia’s justice system.

Indira turned to...