Kuala Lumpur City Council (DBKL) and two others succeeded in their bid to strike out a mother’s lawsuit over the death of her teenage son after he was hit by a falling office chair at a low-cost flat in 2018.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court this afternoon allowed the striking-out application by DBKL, as well as the Federal Territories Ministry and the federal government, against the suit by S Kasthuribai...