Stop politicising Indira Gandhi case, IGP chides ‘experts’
KUALA LUMPUR: InspectorGeneral of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador has urged everyone to stop politicising the issues related to the M. Indira Gandhi case.
He said many “experts” had spoken out without considering the impact on Indira’s 11-year-old daughter.
“In Malaysia, even dead people are being politicised, without regard to religious and cultural limits. Everything is being politicised. So where is our dignity?
“We enjoy talking about this issue so we can score political points, that we can be seen as religious and NGO champions. Stop being selfish. I want to resolve this case, so stop politicising it.”
He said this when asked to comment on the development of the Indira Gandhi case at a press conference after the handing over of duties ceremony for the Narcotics Crime Investigation Department director at Bukit Aman here yesterday.
Hamid said he disclosed information on the whereabouts of Indira’s ex-husband, Muhammad Ridhuan, recently as he had the information and wanted to resolve the issue immediately.
Ridhuan fled with his daughter, Prasana Diksa, in 2009 when she was only 11 months old, after he converted to Islam and no longer used his real name, K. Pathmanathan.
In 2016, the Federal Court ordered the then IGP Khalid Abu Bakar to arrest Ridhuan and comply with the mandamus order issued by the Ipoh High Court two years earlier to retrieve Prasana.
In January 2018, the apex court also overturned the conversion of Prasana and her two older siblings to Islam.
Indira’s two older children live with her, while Ridhuan remains in hiding with Prasana.
Meanwhile, on the transfer of Johor police chief Datuk Mohd Kamarudin Md Din to Bukit Aman, Hamid said Kamarudin was a cyber crime expert from the Commercial Crime Investigation Department.
“It is time for him (Kamarudin) to be transferred to Bukit Aman,” he said.
In a statement issued yesterday, police announced that Bukit Aman Special Branch CounterTerrorism (E8) principal assistant director Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay had been appointed the new Johor police chief with the rank of acting commissioner of police effective March 6.
Kamarudin has been transferred to the administrative division of the Bukit Aman Management Department, also effective March 6.