THE GOVERNMENT is not backing down in its efforts to arrest Phra Dhammachayo, despite its month-long failure to locate the former abbot under the sweeping powers of Article 44.

Investigators are preparing to summon Alisa Asavabhokin, the daughter of property tycoon Anant Asavabhokin, for questioning in connection with her ownership of a large land plot where a major building in the Dhammakaya Temple compound is situated.