The Court of Appeal set April 5 next year for an open-court hearing of M Indira Gandhi’s appeal to commence contempt proceedings over police’s alleged failure to recover her daughter taken by her former husband who is a Muslim convert, declaring the matter as a public interest.

A three-person Court of Appeal bench chaired by Kamaludin Md Said said this when rescheduling today’s initially fixed online hearing of the kindergarten teacher’s appeal linked to an incident where Muhammad Riduan Abdullah took away Prasana Diksa, now aged 15...