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Last Friday, the Attorney General’s Office (AGC) filed a disciplinary complaint against attorney M. Ravi with the Bar Association.
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.”
Last Monday, Ravi told the alternative news website The Online Citizen that the prosecutor had been “too enthusiastic” in prosecuting his client Gobi Avedian, and this “led to a High Court judge giving him the death penalty.” .
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 its statement last Friday that in the interview, Ravi made “serious allegations insinuating 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.
The AGC also noted that the Court of Appeal did not make “such adverse conclusions against the prosecutor.”
Last Tuesday, the AGC sent a letter to Mr. Ravi demanding that he apologize for his comments and unconditionally retract. He did not comply.
A day later, he said that the AGC’s demand for an apology was “clearly unsubstantiated” and instead requested an apology from the prosecutor to his client.
In his letter to Deputy Attorney General Hri Kumar Nair, he said that he does not deny having made the statements specified in the AGC letter that he sent him last 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 last Friday, Mr. Nair wrote: “We reject the claims in your reply and we will not accept any of your demands therein.”
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