Shillong, Mar 12: Deputy Speaker Timothy Shira has filed criminal defamation cases against two persons for spreading misinformation that he spoke against winter capital in Tura.
The cases were filed against Mikkanchi R Sangma of Darangiri, Goalpara District, Assam and Balsrang Marak of Thapa Darenchi, North Garo Hills in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Shillong.
Shira said, “I have filed criminal defamation cases against two individuals as they have made viral on youtube regarding my speech in the Assembly with regards to making Tura, the winter capital.”
“Without knowing the details of what I have spoken in the House, they have flashed in the youtube that I am totally against my community and that I am totally against making Tura, the winter capital”, he said.
According to Shira’s counsel, two cases were filed. “One is defamation and one is criminal defamation. In the criminal defamation case if they can’t prove their allegation they can be punished as per criminal laws. We have also filed a defamation suit for damage of Rs 100 crore from each of them and this is because they have wrongly interpreted what the deputy speaker has spoken in the Assembly.”
“One of the accused defendants is from Assam, who has nothing to do with Meghalaya. She has also misinterpreted statement or speech in the Assembly in a different manner and that has defamed my client in his constituency, in Garo Hills and for that he is aggrieved with the action of these two people and that is why he has approached the court by filing these two defamation cases,” he added.
