Court Sets June 25 For Judicial Monitoring of PDRM Probe On Indira Gandhi’s Ex-husband

IPOH, April 6 (Bernama) -- The High Court today fixed June 25 for the next hearing in the judicial monitoring of the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) probe into Muhammad Riduan Abdullah’s failure to return his youngest daughter, Prasana Diksa, to his ex-wife, M. Indira Gandhi, 17 years ago.

Prasana Diksa will mark her 18th birthday on Wednesday, April 8.

Judge Datuk Norsharidah Awang said that the period until June would allow the police to conduct further investigations, including reviewing information on Muhammad Riduan, who is alleged to have made withdrawals from the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) at the age of 55.

Earlier, Federal Counsel Safiyyah Omar told the court that the PDRM had undertaken several investigative actions, including forensic analysis of CCTV footage and a review of financial transactions linked to Muhammad Riduan (formerly known as K. Pathmanathan before his conversion to Islam)

She said the CCTV footage showing Muhammad Riduan allegedly refueling under the Budi MADANI RON95 (BUDI95) initiative could not be clearly extracted.

Safiyyah also said the police had checked with the EPF following reports of the transaction, but were informed that contributor information could not be disclosed under the provisions of the EPF Act.

“Any disclosure of information without the contributor’s consent is a violation of the EPF Act,” she said, adding that the PDRM would conduct further checks with the EPF on the matter.

In addition, Safiyyah said that no medical records or treatment reports linked to the individual were found in Kelantan, based on information obtained from the state Health Department.

She added that the case would continue until she received the latest instructions from the Attorney General.

Indira’s lawyer, Rajesh Nagarajan, said the latest affidavit submitted today only detailed a single petrol refuelling transaction on Oct 24, 2025, whereas the earlier affidavit cited multiple transactions across nine locations.

ASP Yap Siew Cheng, 44, from the Perak police contingent headquarters’ Criminal Investigation Department, who testified on the affidavit, said CCTV footage was retrievable from only one petrol station, while the other eight were unavailable due to the auto-delete system, which erases recordings after two weeks.

Regarding reports that Muhammad Riduan owned two vehicles, Yap said checks revealed that the road tax on both had expired in 2018 and 2019.

When met outside the court, Indira expressed hope that she would be reunited with her daughter before she turns 18.

“All I am asking for is to meet her. We have been waiting for 17 years. She was taken when she was 11 months, and now she is (turning) 18, an adult. And we are still hoping,” she said.

Indira added that the matter was no longer about taking her child back or religion, but as a mother, her only wish was to see her daughter and the person she had become.

In 2009, Muhammad Riduan converted the couple’s three children to Islam without Indira Gandhi’s consent and sought custody through the Syariah Court. On Jan 29, 2018, the Federal Court ruled that the unilateral conversions were null and void.

The court also ordered the Inspector-General of Police to arrest Muhammad Riduan for defying the High Court’s directive to return the youngest daughter to her mother.

--BERNAMA