M Indira Gandhi said the Home Ministry must take a more serious approach in dealing with efforts to trace her missing daughter rather than merely informing her that her fugitive ex-husband is no longer in the country.

The “exhausted” mother told Malaysiakini that the government must explain how Muhammad Riduan Abdullah was able to escape past the border in contempt of a 2016 court order instructing his arrest and that her daughter is returned to her.