A police report has been lodged against Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and the director-general of the National Registration Department (NRD) for "an abuse" of former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad's personal data.

In his report lodged at the Dang Wangi district police headquarters last night, former Umno division leader Khairuddin Abu Hassan said Zahid had acted with malicious intent in his claim that he was sent a copy of Mahathir's supposed identity card by the NRD director-general stating Mahathir's name as "Mahathir a/l Iskandar Kutty".

Khairuddin said by doing so, both Zahid and the NRD director-general had committed offences under the Personal Data Protection Act...