KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 -- Umno supreme council member Datuk Mohd Puad Zarkashi has removed his February 9 Facebook post which was cited in a defamation lawsuit against him by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

This is after the High Court on March 1 granted Muhyiddin's ex-parte application for an interim injunction or temporary injunction to stop Puad from publishing the alleged defamatory Facebook post or other similar contents for now.

The interim injunction obtained on March 1 is in effect until an inter-parte hearing or a hearing involving both sides on the interim injunction.

The High Court has fixed March 12 for the inter-parte hearing of the interim injunction.

In Muhyiddin's ex-parte application for the interim injunction...