Indira Gandhi to undertake 350km 'justice walk' to Putrajaya
M Indira Gandhi, who has been fighting to regain custody of her lost daughter Prasana Diksa is set to carry out a 12-day, 350km walk to Putrajaya next month to deliver a letter to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.
Indira Gandhi Action Team (Ingat) chairperson Arun Dorasamy said while it was not easy for Indira and Ingat to take this step, they felt that they had no choice...
M Indira Gandhi, who has been fighting to regain custody of her lost daughter Prasana Diksa, is set to carry out a 12-day, 350km walk to Putrajaya next month to deliver a letter to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.
Indira Gandhi Action Team (Ingat) chairperson Arun Dorasamy said while it was not easy for Indira and Ingat to take this step, they felt that they had no choice.
"It's not easy to go to this extent, but what else can we do but go to the public and seek for help," Arun told Malaysiakini.
Last month, they called off a proposed hunger strike after the IGP Abdul Hamid Bador agreed to meet with Indira. However, at the meeting at Bukit Aman, he was not present and sent a representative.
Furthermore, Arun said the police have not responded to their attempts to follow-up.
"You know about our meeting with the IGP on Sept 3. And from that meeting, we are supposed to have IGP's rescheduled meeting for us to thrash out a few concerns that we have."
"We did write in and requested that the rescheduled meeting should happen before the end of September. And we did not get any reply all month.
"So, we are under the impression that there is a systematic dragging of the feet on the IGP's side."
Thus, Indira and her team have decided on a 350km, 12-day march, the details of which will be revealed in a press conference tomorrow.
"We will disclose the contents of the meeting in full in the press conference.
"Earlier we said that if IGP refused to meet, we would go for a symbolic hunger strike on Sept 11.
"We called off that hunger strike to show our goodwill and willingness to work with the IGP and thrash out all the concerns, and to find a way to work together and clear the deficit of trust.
"But until today, we see no urgent interest to find Indira's daughter and reunite her with Indira. We have not received any phone calls, messages or reply to our emails. So, we decided to bring our plea to the people.
Arun said aside from delivering a letter to the prime minister, on the way Indira would also deliver a memorandum to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
Back in January, the IGP revealed he knew the whereabouts of Indira’s former husband Muhammad Riduan Abdullah and urged him to surrender himself.
This is despite an arrest warrant from the Federal Court for Riduan, who had taken the daughter, Prasana with him.
Prasana was an infant when her father Riduan, previously named K Pathmanathan, took her away in 2009 after converting to Islam.
Riduan and Indira were later engaged in a tightly watched interfaith custody battle after he unilaterally converted Prasana and their two other children to Islam.
In 2014, the Ipoh High Court ordered the police to retrieve Prasana from her father. In 2016, the Federal Court ordered the IGP to arrest Riduan.
In 2018, the Federal Court unanimously ruled that unilateral conversions of children were unlawful as such decisions needed permission from both parents.
It also issued an arrest warrant for Riduan.
Are you sure you want to delete this comment?
This action cannot be undone.