Gabe Menezes <[email protected]> wrote in response to: > Dear members of Goanet-forum, > > A totally fabricated accusation has been made against me that I requested a > Stanford doctorate author for a complimentary copy of his book and upon > refusal I told him he should go back to school to learn English.
> Selma Carvalho > "RESPONSE: There is nowhere that Mrs Selma Carvalho's name was mentioned": Dear Gabru, You are wrong if you think that saying: "There is nowhere that Mrs Selma Carvalho's name was mentioned" will protect you from charges of defamation, The fact is that you very clearly pointed to Selma by saying the woman you mentioned was from "Nuvem" . Hence it is obvious that you were trying to soil Selma's reputation. You aren't absolved of being defamatory, as naive schoolchildren sometimes surmise, by not 'naming' the person. Under Indian laws and for that matter British laws, you are clearly culpable; of course, whether you should be prosecuted in a court of law on this account is a different issue and I wouldn't advise anyone to do so at least in India. However in the Court of Goanet's readers, you have successfully proved yourself to be an abuser. You could perhaps redeem yourself somewhat by having the decency to apologize. Bah! Augusto
