IGP: Police will carry out Federal Court order and arrest Muslim convert
THE STAR
PETALING JAYA: The police will abide by the Federal Court's decision and execute the arrest warrant for Mohamad Riduan Abdullah, says Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar .
In a tweet on Friday, Khalid said that the police "will abide by the finding of the Federal Court" and act on the arrest warrant.
Earlier on Friday, the Federal Court allowed an appeal by kindergarten teacher M. Indira Gandhi for the police to execute the warrant of arrest against her ex-husband Riduan on an inter-faith custody issue.
This came after Riduan disobeyed an Ipoh High Court order to compel him to deliver their daughter Prasana Diksa to Indira Gandhi.
Khalid's stand on the issue had been that police were caught in a quandary because there were two conflicting custody orders, one each from the High Court and Syariah High Court respectively.
In Sept 2009, the Ipoh Syariah High Court, granted custody of the couple's three children to the father, who had converted to Islam.
Riduan had also converted Prasana, then 11 months old, as well as her siblings Tevi Darsiny, then 12, and Karan Dinish, then 11.
However, the Ipoh High Court on March 2010, placed the children in Indira's custody, with once-a-week access given to the father.
When Riduan failed to return Prasana to his wife, the court cited him for contempt and ordered the police to return the child to its mother.
