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The owner of a popular social media news page has been ordered to pay over $400,000 in compensation to a primary school principal for defamation.
Delivering an oral judgment this week, High Court Judge Devindra Rampersad upheld the case brought by Spring Village Hindu School principal Susan Ragoonanan against Antonio Ranjitsingh, who operates Trini Crime News TT.
Rampersad ruled that Ranjitsingh defamed Ragoonanan in a series of posts on different social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok between June and August last year.
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