Prasana was taken by her father, Muhammad Riduan Abdullah, formerly known as K Pathmanathan, in 2009 and unilaterally converted to Islam.
Indira’s lawyer, Rajesh Nagarajan, told the media after filing the application that police had failed to comply with a mandamus order issued on May 30, 2014 to recover Prasana and to file an affidavit every month together with copies of investigation reports.
“Approximately 90 affidavits have not been filed by the police to date,” he said at the press conference organised by Indira’s support group, Indira Gandhi Action Team (Ingat).
“This is contempt of court according to our client and, therefore, she has filed an application against the IGP.
“Judicial commissioner Bhupindar Singh Gurcharan Singh Preet ordered the AGC to file an affidavit in reply to the application.”
Rajesh also said his legal team had asked the court to issue a directive to the AGC to ask police to issue a Red Notice against Riduan.
“The AGC had said that it will discuss with the police how to file the Red Notice against him,” he said, adding that there was no such notice when he checked the Interpol website yesterday.
“There was a Yellow Notice issued for Prasana. It has been 12 years since she was abducted, and seven years since the Ipoh High Court issued the recovery order. Why has there been no Red Notice for Riduan yet?” he asked.
A Yellow Notice is issued to help locate missing persons, often minors, or to help identify persons who are unable to identify themselves, according to the Interpol website.
A Red Notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.
The court has fixed Feb 22 for the judicial monitoring of the recovery order, and Feb 25 for the case management of Indira’s contempt of court application.
In November last year, FMT reported that Ingat would be seeking contempt proceedings against former IGP Abdul Hamid Bador.
Ingat chairman Arun Dorasamy said Indira had no other choice but to resort to such action due to lack of cooperation from the police in recovering Prasana.
In October last year, Indira filed a separate RM100 million civil suit against Hamid, the police and the government at the Kuala Lumpur High Court over the authorities’ inaction on the matter.