The Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of a family’s lawsuit over the 2013 death of custody of engineer P Karuna Nithi due to them having previously mounted a similar failed legal bid.

In reading out the decision of the three-person appellate bench chaired by judge M Nantha Balan, fellow member judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali said that the originating summons is the same as the family’s earlier failed legal action filed at the Seremban High Court in 2018.

The second lawsuit was...