KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 3 -- The mother and sister of the 16-year-old student who was fatally stabbed at a secondary school in Bandar Utama last year have filed a civil suit at the Kuala Lumpur High Court.

The family's lawyer, Surendra Ananth, confirmed the suit that was filed on Thursday, adding that case management has been fixed for October 29.

"We have named a number of government agencies as defendants. We have named the parents of the boy who killed my daughter as defendants. We have also named the boy himself as a defendant," the victim's mother, Wong Lee Ping, said in a statement today.

"With the increasing mental health challenges faced by our children today, we cannot choose to stay silent anymore.

"Grand statements and plans are...