Kindergarten teacher M Indira Gandhi today failed in her appeal against a High Court’s dismissal of her bid for leave to initiate contempt proceeding against the inspector-general of police (IGP) for failing to comply with a recovery order to locate her daughter, Prasana Diksa, who was taken away by her ex-husband in 2019.

A panel of three Court of Appeal judges led by Justice Azizah Nawawi held that both the High Court and the appellate court were bound by a 2016 Federal Court ruling which decided that a recovery order cannot be granted where there are two conflicting custodial orders.