PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court here has allowed an appeal by kindergarten teacher M. Indira Gandhi (pic) for the police to execute the warrant of arrest against her ex-husband Mohamad Riduan Abdullah.

This was after Riduan disobeyed an Ipoh High Court order to compel him to deliver their daughter Prasana Diksa to Indira Gandhi.



Indira had filed an appeal against the Court of Appeal decision in December 2014 which rejected Indira’s appeal to enforce the High Court’s mandamus order compelling IGP Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar to retrieve Indira’s six-year-old child, Prasana Diksa, and arrest Riduan. Ipoh High Court judge Justice Lee Swee Seng in his landmark ruling on Sept 12, 2014 granted Indira Gandhi’s application for a mandamus order, saying the IGP must enforce the civil court’s orders, not that of the Syariah Court.



Khalid’s stand had been that police were in a quandary because there were two custody orders, from the High Court and the Syariah High Court, and executing one would mean showing disrespect to the other.

Ipoh High Court judge Justice Lee Swee Seng in his landmark ruling on Sept 12, 2014 granted Indira Gandhi’s application for a mandamus order, saying the IGP must enforce the civil court’s orders, not that of the Syariah Court.Khalid’s stand had been that police were in a quandary because there were two custody orders, from the High Court and the Syariah High Court, and executing one would mean showing disrespect to the other.

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Court of Appeal president Justice Raus Shariff, who chaired a five-member panel, made the order in the presence of Senior Federal Counsel Suzana Atan and Indira's counsel M. Kulasegaran on Friday.