Heng has faith in IGP reuniting Indira with daughter

PETALING JAYA: The police under the leadership of Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun should have no problems locating M. Indira Gandhi’s ex-husband and nine-year-old daughter, said Datuk Heng Seai Kie.

The Wanita MCA chairman said they have every confidence the Inspector-General of Police will help reunite mother and daughter.

She said Indira along with other non-converting spouses have wept too many tears after being separated from their children.

With the recent Federal Court judgment, she said, it is still not too late to reunite broken families in similar cases.

Mohamad Fuzi said police would track down both father and child after the Federal Court ruling.

Heng said Mohamad Fuzi’s predecessor, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, would always be remembered for thumbing his nose at a previous High Court order for him to arrest Riduan.

“By inaccurately asserting the conflicting orders by the Syariah Court he failed to carry out his duty as the top cop to obey civil laws,” she said in a statement.

Heng said MCA had tirelessly argued that both parents have equal rights in determining a minor child’s religion.

MCA has also maintained that all disputes in a marriage contracted by civil law must only be resolved by civil courts.

Sisters in Islam (SIS) said the Federal Court decision showed that the rule of law prevails in the country and Malaysia is a nation, which abides by it.

SIS and other women’s groups said that they have recognised the “injustices and trauma” caused by the unilateral conversion of minors and had sought to push through law reforms to stop further injustices.

Malaysian Bar president George Varughese said in upholding the supremacy of the Federal Constitution, the Federal Court held that civil courts are the sole guardian of constitutional rights with the “power to review the lawfulness of executive action”.