The civil court has ordered the Royal Malaysia Police to track down a Thai mother’s daughter who was allegedly spirited away by her former Malaysian husband from Thailand into this country.

According to a copy of the interim injunction issued by the High Court in Kuala Lumpur dated June 20, the civil family court directed the 37-year-old father and his family members to hand over the three-year-old girl to her 38-year-old mother.

In the decision delivered in chambers, High Court judge Evrol Mariette Peters also ordered the police to “take every step needed to give full cooperation to...