Businessperson Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak and two others have withdrawn their bid for a temporary injunction against MalaysiaNow and its editor Abdar Rahman Koya in an ongoing defamation suit.

The defendant’s lawyer, Rajesh Nagarajan, confirmed the matter to the media in a statement today.

“By a letter dated May 13, Messrs Ahmad Daniel Ruben & Co, solicitors for the plaintiffs, informed Messrs Raj & Sach, solicitors for the defendants, that the injunction proceedings...