Senior federal counsel Mankiranjit Kaur said the date was fixed following online case management before judicial commissioner Bhupinder Singh yesterday.

The government is opposing Indira’s application for leave to cite the police for disrespecting a 2014 High Court order.

“We have been instructed to file our written submissions on April 13, and Indira by May 5,” Mankiranjit said.

Lawyer L Pavitra represented Indira during the proceeding.

Prasana was taken by her father, Muhammad Riduan Abdullah, formerly known as K Pathmanathan, in 2009 and unilaterally converted to Islam.

Indira filed contempt proceedings as 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.

Arun Dorasamy, the chairman of Indira’s support group, Indira Gandhi Action Team (Ingat), said she had no choice but to resort to such action because of the lack of cooperation from the police in recovering Prasana.

Indira has also filed a separate RM100 million civil suit against the IGP, the police and the government at the Kuala Lumpur High Court over the authorities’ inaction on the matter.

On Jan 29, 2018, a five-member Federal Court allowed a declaration sought by her that no single parent from a civil marriage could convert their minor children though the spouse had embraced Islam.

Following this ruling, the certificates of conversion issued by the Perak registrar of muallafs to her three children – Tevi Darshiny, Karan Dinesh and Prasana – became null and void.

Indira and Riduan (then Pathmanathan) had entered into a civil marriage on April 10, 1993, but he converted to Islam on March 11, 2009.

On March 31, 2009, Riduan left the matrimonial home in Ipoh with Prasana, then 11 months old. Two days later, he unilaterally converted his three children by using their birth certificates and without the consent and knowledge of Indira.

The whereabouts of Riduan and Prasana are unknown.