KUALA LUMPUR: The eldest daughter of Al-Arqam founder Ashaari Muhammad, Ummu Atiyyah, together with police investigators, have revisited the place where she was allegedly confined in Kampung Batu Hampar Dalam, Perak.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain confirmed that she led police to the village where she claimed she had been confined for about a month.
"The 41-year-old woman led investigators to the house where several Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISB) followers held her.
"We recorded a statement from the woman at around 11am at the Padang Gajah police station in Perak before she was accompanied by policemen from the Taiping Criminal Investigation Department to the village," he said when contacted.
Razarudin said Ummu Atiyyah claimed that she had been confined in a two-room house for about a month.
"She told investigators that she had tried to escape but was captured and brought back.
"She showed police the house used to confine her before they sent her to her grandmother's residence in Kedah," he said, adding that the entire process went smoothly with no untoward incidents.
It was reported that Ummu Atiyyah arrived at the GISB village in Kampung Batu Hampar today to identify the location where she claims she was held for a month.
Accompanied by police, the 41-year-old arrived at the village at 2.30pm.
Dressed in a white baju kurung, Ummu Atiyyah led police to a house within the village, to show them where she had been confined for about a month.
Ummu Atiyyah and the police left the area about 30 minutes later.
On Saturday, Oct 19, it was reported that police opened a wrongful confinement probe following claims that she was a victim of violence.
She had also claimed she had been forced to marry a leader of the GISB.
The 41-year-old woman lodged a police report, claiming that she was forced to marry one of the GISB leaders in Turkey before being brought back to Malaysia and locked up in a GISB settlement in Batu Hampar, Perak.
She had claimed that the settlement in question was inhabited by many teenagers and adults aged 13 and above.
She also claimed to have been locked in a room on the same floor for about a month by four male GISB followers, who also prevented her from using her mobile phone.
She tried several times to escape from the village but was caught by other residents.
She also claimed to have received psychiatric treatment at a Taiping hospital in 2018 and is now on medical prescriptions from a Melaka hospital.
Reports had previously claimed that Ummu Atiyyah was betrayed by her own sibling, forced into marriage and subjected to mental and physical abuse.