In a response to FMT on the status of the search, Inspector-General of Police, Abdul Hamid Bador said: “Not yet (found). I am looking actively into it.”

This comes ahead of a press briefing tomorrow by the Indira Gandhi Action Team (INGAT) on the disappearance of Prasana Diksa, who was taken by Indira’s estranged husband, Muhammad Riduan Abdullah.

In its invitation to the media, INGAT had raised the possibility that a famous preacher could be harbouring Riduan.

Prasana was one year old in 2009 when Riduan took her away from Indira.

Indira has been battling in the courts for custody of her children and against their unilateral conversion to Islam by Riduan.

Last year, the Federal Court ruled in favour of Indira, challenging her three children’s conversion. The court said both parents must agree on their children’s conversion to Islam, departing from another court’s decision that either parent can decide on the children’s religion.

The court also ordered the police to locate Riduan and Prasana, and to return the child to Indira.

INGAT, in its invite, had also said it had no reason to believe that the police and home ministry had the political will to track down Riduan.

“It is impossible for us to think that the 11-year-old kid or a 50-year-old fugitive, Riduan, can outrun the police,” said the group.

The police task force to track down Riduan and Prasana was set up by former IGP Fuzi Harun on May 3.