Ng was interviewed for about 45 minutes this morning, with her lawyer, Amer Hamzah Arshad, present.
“We have cooperated with the police as much as we can and we will leave it to them to investigate the case,” Amer Hamzah said after the meeting, according to Star Online.
Zaid’s article, “My heart goes to you, Indira”, first published on his blog, was also carried in the Sunday Star. The former minister had criticised a recent Court of Appeal decision on the unilateral conversion of M Indira Gandhi’s children to Islam.
Police have questioned Zaid about his article and he has said he “fully expected to be charged in court.”
Zaid had described as heart wrenching the long custody battle that kindergarten teacher Indira has fought over her children. Zaid was critical of Malaysian law and the “heartless” process that had led to the long drawn-out Indira case.
Indira’s battle began in April 2009 after her husband K Patmanathan converted to Islam, taking the name Muhammad Riduan Abdullah. He took their youngest child, Prasana Diksa, then 11 months old.
He unilaterally converted Prasana to Islam, together with her sister and brother Tevi Darsiny, then 12, and Karan Dinish, then 11, who have both remained with their mother.
The case has pitted the Civil Courts against the Syariah Court system in a legal struggle for primacy and jurisdiction.
The children’s father, Riduan, obtained a Syariah Court order in October 2009 awarding him custody of the children but the High Court granted Indira full custody and later ordered Riduan to return Prasana to her mother. She also took action against the police for not abiding by the Civil Court’s order.
In 2013, she succeeded in obtaining a Civil Court decision quashing the conversion of her three children, but the Court of Appeal set aside the order this month. Her lawyers are to seek an appeal to the Federal Court.