Had S Deepa retaliated against her ex-husband Izwan Abdullah and injured him when he snatched their son, would the police have classified this as merely a “domestic incident”?

This poser from Deepa comes in the wake of the statement by federal police chief Khalid Abu Bakar that no action would be taken against Izwan for breaching the Seremban High Court’s custody order.

Deepa, 30, had been awarded custody of her son and daughter last week. Two days later, Izwan took away the six-year-old boy, without her consent.

"Is this Malaysia? We do have laws in this land. He has breached a High Court order that gave me custody of my children. He should have pursued legal means to take back the children, not like this," she said.

Deepa also questioned if the police would have been silent if she had fallen under the tyres of the Mistubishi Pajero that Izwan had used to take their son away from her house in Jelebu.

"I am injured because of my attempts to get my son back. But if the (vehicle) had run over me when I fell down, what would he (Izwan) have to say about that?" she asked.

‘One could imagine her fate’

Meanwhile, Persatuan Hindraf Malaysia (PHM) chairperson P Waythamoorthy said in a statement today that if roles were reversed and Deepa had taken away her son from Izwan instead, the police “would have sprung into action backed by Islamic authorities”.

“One could  imagine her fate. She would be denied bail and the other child would be handed to the Muslim father as the legal guardian and he of course would happily exercise his ‘constitutionally defective authority’ to convert the other remaining child as well,” Waythamoorthy, a former deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, said in a statement today.

He said that the IGP’s statement that no action will be taken against Izwan is a clear “show of the power bully”.

“The powers that be behave in a manner as if their actions are above the constitution and they are above the law when implementing the inferior syariah court order. Malaysians from all walks of life have lost trust in the IGP with his daft statements and inaction,” he said.

“It is time the government  recognises that non-Muslims who make up 45 percent of the population deserve the right to be treated equally for there can be no dignity without equality,” he said.

Waythamoorthy also said that the politicians from both sides of the divide should start speaking up about this issue “rather than choosing the politically correct approach”.