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The Attorney General’s Office (AGC) issued a demand letter to attorney M. Ravi to apologize and retract the comments he had made about a case involving a drug trafficker who escaped from the gallows.
In a video interview with alternative news site The Online Citizen (TOC) on Monday, Ravi made “false and highly inflammatory” allegations against the prosecution in the case, the AGC said yesterday.
His comments came after the five-judge Court of Appeals on Monday reversed a 2018 decision to convict Gobi Avedian on a capital charge.
Mr. Ravi told TOC that the prosecutor had been “overzealous” in prosecuting Gobi, which had “led to the death sentence.”
He also said that “it was worrying” that the prosecution took different cases before the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
Mr. Ravi asked the prosecutor and others to apologize to Gobi for the suffering he had experienced, adding that the high court ruling calls into question “the impartiality of the administration of justice in the Gobi case by the prosecution” .
Yesterday, the AGC said in a statement that it had sent Mr. Ravi a letter earlier that day demanding that he apologize and unconditionally retract the allegations he had made.
“These are serious allegations, that the Public Ministry has acted in bad faith or maliciously in the prosecution of the plaintiff (Gobi),” said the AGC.
“They are false and highly inflammatory. It is highly improper and completely contrary to Mr. Ravi’s obligations as an official of the court for him to make these baseless, unfounded and misleading accusations.”
The AGC noted that the Court of Appeal did not issue adverse rulings against the Public Prosecutor or the Gobi prosecution.
The AGC has given Mr. Ravi until noon tomorrow to respond. – THE TIMES OF THE STRAIT
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