Previous SODELPA MP Ratu Isoa Tikoca has been requested to pay Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum $80,000 as absolute harms inside 30 days.
Tikoca had stigmatized Sayed-Khaiyum.
High Court Judge, Justice Vishwa Datt Sharma has likewise requested Tikoca to deliver recorded as a hard copy a public withdrawal and conciliatory sentiment to Sayed-Khaiyum which additionally must be distributed in the papers.
He has likewise been requested to pay $5,000 to Sayed-Khaiyum as expenses.
In 2018, Tikoca purposefully or wildly defamed Sayed-Khaiyum in a meeting with a Sydney Community Radio Station where he talked in the I taukei language and offered expressions without due respect to reality or veracity of its substance.
Tikoca had said that legally binding plans have been executed for government employees from a quarter of a year to five years and inside five years, the measure of government employees being supplanted will add up to 2,550 individuals.
He said that these individuals are the ones that hold up traffic of Sayed-Khaiyum.
Tikoca had further dishonestly said this is the wicked plan that Sayed-Khaiyum is engineering without Bainimarama understanding at all.
Equity Sharma says the claims offered in the expressions are intense in nature and it doesn’t give anybody or the respondent specifically any permit or opportunity to make these charges except if they are valid in nature and legitimate on solid grounds. Equity Sharma says Tikoca’s assertions made generous harm Sayed-Khaiyum’s standing in his ability as an individual from the parliament, Minister for Economy and the Attorney General.
He says the words distributed by Tikoca were determined to deride Sayed-Khaiyum in his calling and bring him into disdain, scorn, disparage and to harm his character.
-Fiji Village
