Court orders Sg Siput MP to pay RM80k to former aide for defamation

The Court of Appeal has ordered Sungai Siput MP S Kesavan to pay RM80,000 in damages to his former parliamentary research officer Indrani Ramasamy for defamation.

A three-member panel, comprising Judge Kamaludin Md Said, Hashim Hamzah and Collin Lawrence Sequeira made the ruling after allowing Indrani's appeal over the Kuala Lumpur High Court’s decision which dismissed her suit against Kesavan...