Ambiga, Marina throw weight behind Indira's march to Bukit Aman

Ambiga, Marina throw weight behind Indira's march to Bukit Aman

G Vinod
Published: Nov 21, 2025 11:59 AM
Updated: 4:39 PM



Prominent rights activists Ambiga Sreenevasan and Marina Mahathir will join M Indira Gandhi's Justice March tomorrow, the Indira Gandhi Action Team (Ingat) said today.

Ingat chairperson Arun Dorasamy said Ambiga (above, left), a former Malaysian Bar president and Bersih chairperson, has consistently been at the forefront of various human rights and governance issues.

“Her presence is not only symbolic, it reinforces the fundamental principle that no authority is above the law, and that the fight for Prasana Diksa’s return is a fight grounded in constitutional justice, child rights, and moral duty.

“Having a figure of her calibre walk alongside Indira is a powerful reminder to the nation that the pursuit of justice must never be abandoned, no matter how long the struggle,” Arun said in a statement today.

Extending appreciation to Marina, Arun said her presence tomorrow affirms a simple but powerful truth - that no child should be separated from a loving parent, and no authority should stand above the law.

Ingat chairperson Arun Dorasamy

When contacted, Marina said: “I am just joining because, as a mother myself, I cannot imagine not being able to see my own child for so long.

“It is just heartless on the part of everyone who is keeping her away from her mother.”

The Justice March tomorrow is to protest the police’s repeated failure to retrieve Prasana, Indira’s daughter, from her Muslim convert father, Riduan Abdullah, despite multiple court orders instructing authorities to arrest him and return the girl.

Arun previously said protesters will march from the Sogo shopping centre, starting 10.30am, to the federal police headquarters in Bukit Aman, where Indira will hand over a teddy bear, a stroller, and other toys belonging to Prasana before she was abducted to Inspector-General of Police Khalid Ismail.

He had said that the march would not end until Khalid met with Indira, adding that all legal challenges against the government in the case would cease as soon as Prasana was returned to her mother.

Other prominent figures expected to join the march are Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) M Kulasegaran and former law minister Zaid Ibrahim.

Unfulfilled mandate

Indira’s 16-year plight started in 2009, when her ex-husband, Riduan, then known as K Pathmanathan, unilaterally converted their children to Islam, abducted the then still nursing 11-month-old Prasana and disappeared.

The Ipoh High Court in 2013 overturned the three minors' conversion to Islam, ruling it to be against the principle of natural justice as the mother's consent was not sought.

M Indira Gandhi


The Ipoh High Court subsequently also granted Indira full custody, but in 2014, the Court of Appeal overturned a High Court order directing the IGP to recover Prasana.

The High Court order gave Riduan a week to bring Prasana to Indira or be jailed. He defied the order, failing to carry it out by the deadline at noon on June 6, 2014.

In 2016, the Federal Court finally ordered the police to arrest Riduan and reunite Prasana with her mother - a mandate that remains unfulfilled to this day.