Several supporters moved to the middle of the road at about 2.30pm, saying they were left with “no other choice” after the nation’s top cop failed to appear.

“We have come this far. If this peaceful march ends in arrest, then so be it,” said activist Arun Dorasamy.

Arun said he was informed that Khalid would be leaving an event at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre to meet the group.

The group of more than 100 people had marched from the Sogo shopping complex to Bukit Aman earlier today, with Indira carrying a teddy bear intended to be handed to Khalid as a symbol of her love for her missing daughter, Prasana Diksa, who was abducted by her former husband in 2008.

Indira’s former husband, Riduan Abdullah, is the subject of an arrest warrant since 2018 for failing to return Prasana to Indira after he lost a legal battle over custody and religious conversion of their children.

On Jan 29, 2018, the Federal Court ruled that the unilateral conversions were null and void. The court also ordered the IGP to arrest Riduan for defying the High Court’s directive to return their youngest daughter to Indira.

“We came here to meet the IGP, but instead of the IGP, this is what we are faced with,” Indira told reporters earlier today.

“It is very embarrassing that the IGP cannot do something as simple as receiving Prasana’s doll.

“This was what we were hoping for, and what we had written to him about earlier. I don’t know why the IGP said he is busy with work. Is this not part of his work?”