Desperately missing Prasana, who turns three on April 1, Indira is grappling with depression and financial instability."There is no Valentine’s Day celebration for me and my family as I have not seen my youngest daughter for the past three years."It is pure mental torture and agony that my husband is inflicting on me and my children. He has destroyed the peace and happiness of my family," she said.
Relating her problem to FMT, an emotional Indira said she is now unable to withdraw her life savings, engage a lawyer to fight for the custody of her third child or apply for any form of loans including housing and car.Her husband's failure to meet the instalments on their family car, which is registered in her name, has resulted in her being made a bankrupt.It has also dashed her dream of securing a diploma and then degree in pre-school teaching in a bid to improve her financial standing.Her bigger fear is that she might now lose her current job as a kindergarden teacher as a result of the bankcruptcy.
Dire straits
Indira currently earns RM700 a month in her day job as a teacher and supplements this income by giving private tution which brings her an additional RM800 a month.She juggles rent, provisions and her two children's educational needs on RM1,500.“Where am I to get the money to pay the remaining RM50,000 for the car loan when I cannot even meet my daily expenses with the present monthly income of RM1,500?” she said.Indira is hoping that some charitable organisation will come to her rescue to settle the car debt and free her from bankruptcy so that she can pursue her education and improve her economic standings.
Indira has been waging a legal battle for the past two years with her husband Mohd Riduan Abdullah @ K Pathmanathan, 42, for the custody of Prasana. She has custody of the two elder children Tevidarsiny,14, and Karan Dinesh,13, while Riduan, upon conversion, took away Prasana when she was a toddler.She is also battling to quash the certificates of conversion to Islam of her three children which Riduan had done secretly without her knowledge.
Indira’s application to quash the conversion order is coming up for hearing in the Ipoh High Court on March 30.It has been an uphill battle for Indira to secure custody of Prasana and to revert her children's documentation to their original religion.
A ploy
According to Indira, her family life has drastically changed and the future was bleak, especially after her husband failed to meet the car payments.She said that in 1999 her husband had bought the Proton Wira car with registration number AFN 387 for RM58,000 but only paid about RM8,000 before he left with Prasana and the car to Kelantan where he is believed to be in hiding now.Indira and her family used to stay in Jelapang, but they have since shifted to a rented house in Taman Pertama in Buntong.
After failing to contact her at her old address, the car's bankers CIMB, took legal proceedings to declare her a bankrupt.Indira, however, only became aware that she was declared a bankrupt, when on Jan 25, the officials at Maybank told her that she could not withdraw any money from her savings which had been frozen by the bankruptcy office.Three days later, on the instructions of her lawyer M Kulasegaran, she lodged a police report against her husband for not paying the car instalments and making her a bankrupt. She made the report at the Ipoh district police headquarters.
When contacted today, Kulasegaran said the bankruptcy move by Riduan maybe a ploy by him to delay returning the third child as ordered by the Ipoh High Court on March 11 last year.
Source : http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/02/15/please-give-me-back-my-baby/
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