Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia's police chief is suing opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim for defamation（诽谤; 中伤） over allegations the chief concocted（捏造、编造） evidence against Anwar in an assault case, the policeman's lawyer said yesterday.

Anwar had said police chief Musa Hassan fabricated evidence against him when he caused 引起, 惹起, 使(发生), 促成 a doctor to produce a report stating that Anwar's injuries, sustained while in police custody in 1998, could have been self-inflicted or accidental when the policeman knew he had been beaten up, Musa's lawyer said.

"These words that he uttered are untrue and false and defamatory of Musa," Kamarul Hisham Kamaruddin said.