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SINGAPORE – On Friday (October 23) the Attorney General’s Office (AGC) filed a disciplinary complaint against attorney M. Ravi with the Lawyers Society.
The complaint refers to “possible professional misconduct” by Ravi, the AGC said in a statement late Friday.
It was presented because Mr. Ravi had not apologized or retracted statements he had previously made that AGC had said were “false, misleading and unfairly and unlawfully discrediting AGC,” the statement added.
The AGC further said that Mr. Ravi’s conduct “does not meet the standards of professional conduct expected of an attorney and court attorney.”
On Monday, Ravi had told the alternative news website The Online Citizen (TOC) that the prosecutor had been “too enthusiastic” in prosecuting Gobi Avedian, and this “led to a High Court judge giving the death penalty. “to your customer.
Ravi made the comments after the five-judge Court of Appeals reversed a 2018 decision to convict Gobi on a capital drug trafficking charge.
He also said, among other things, that the higher court ruling casts doubt on “the fairness of the administration of justice in the Gobi case by the prosecution.”
The AGC said in Friday’s statement that in the interview, Ravi had made “serious allegations implying that the prosecutor had acted in bad faith or maliciously” in appealing against Gobi’s original sentence of 15 years in prison and 10 strokes of the baton, and that this “alleged misconduct led to the imposition of the death penalty” on Gobi.
AGC also noted that the Court of Appeal did not make “such adverse conclusions against the prosecutor.”
On Tuesday, the AGC had sent a letter to Mr. Ravi demanding that he apologize for his comments and unconditionally retract.
He did not comply.
Instead, on Wednesday, he said the AGC’s demand for an apology was “clearly unsubstantiated,” and sought an apology from the prosecutor for his client.
He also said, in his letter to Under Secretary of Justice Hri Kumar Nair, that he does not deny having made the statements specified in the AGC letter he sent him on Tuesday.
But he denied that the statements amounted to allegations that the prosecutor had acted in bad faith or maliciously in prosecuting Gobi, and that he had made them knowing or having reason to believe they were false.
In a letter to Mr. Ravi on Friday, Mr. Nair wrote: “We reject the claims in your reply and we will not accept any of your demands there.”
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