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SINGAPORE: Lawyer Ravi Madasamy, better known as M Ravi, was charged in court on Wednesday (Dec 16) with criminal defamation of the Law Minister.
Ravi, 51, is accused of defaming Minister of Law K Shanmugam by citing an allegation that Mr Shanmugam calls the (shots) and (controls) as well as wields influence over the Chief Justice.
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The case was heard only briefly on Wednesday, with Ravi telling the judge that he had already made representations the week before.
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Singapore Lawyer M Ravi was charged in court on Wednesday (Dec 16) with criminal defamation of Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam.
Ravi, 51, is accused of defaming Mr Shanmugam by alleging that the minister had claimed that he wields influence over and controls Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon.
The allegations were made in a Facebook post on Nov 6, with Ravi claiming that he had heard them from fellow lawyer Eugene Thuraisingam.
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However, in a post on his own Facebook page the same day, Mr Thuraisingam, a prominent criminal defence lawyer who has represented several people accused of murder and secured the acquittal of a doctor accused of rape, called Ravi’s Facebook post “false and completely untrue”.
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