The widow of the late private investigator P Balasubramaniam has failed in her bid to reinstate a second legal suit against former prime minister Najib Razak, his wife Rosmah Mansor, and six others.

The Federal Court today dismissed A Santamil Selvi’s application for leave to appeal against the Court of Appeal’s ruling which had struck out her lawsuit.

A three-member Federal Court bench chaired by Rohana Yusuf made the ruling after hearing submissions via video conferencing due to the conditional movement control order...