KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 — Hindu mother M. Indira Gandhi said today she wants to meet Pakatan Harapan (PH) leaders to ask for help in finding her youngest daughter whom she has not seen for the past decade.
The kindergarten teacher from Ipoh, Perak, was one of the panelists at the launch of the NGO report “The Status of Women's Human Rights: 24 Years of Cedaw in Malaysia”, who had shared the unilateral conversions of her three children as a survivor of gender-based violence and discrimination.
“We are not blaming the old or the new government, but I think justice was served and the execution should be there.
“The priority is to find my daughter... whether Hindu or Muslim is another matter… and I hope this new government will be more serious in finding her,” she said when met after the event, adding that she wished to meet with several federal ministers to highlight the matter.
Indira’s ex-husband had abducted their daughter Prasana Diksa, now 11, in 2009 when she was 11 months old.
She added that so far, she has yet to meet with any lawmakers from the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government but hopes to do so.
“The judgment is there already. They already instructed the IGP and police to find her. To start another suit against the IGP is going to be too much of a hassle. I don’t want that,” she said, referring to Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun.
“I just want to find her, bond with her and move on. Ten years is just too long… hopefully, this can be carried out,” she said.
On Friday, police said they have yet to identify the whereabouts of Indira’s ex-husband, Pathmanathan Krishnan @ Muhammad Riduan Abdullah.
Criminal investigations director Commissioner Datuk Seri Wan Ahmad Najmuddin Mohd had said that efforts to track down Muhammad Riduan have been ongoing since May 20, 2014, when a warrant for his arrest was issued by the High Court in Ipoh.
