Air India executive wins libel case against London newspaper

London: A senior Air India executive has won a libel case against a British eveninger over false accusations that he sexually harassed a female colleague and was a "serial sex pest".
Captain Ashwini Kumar Sharma, an army captain and former aide-de-camp to the Indian president who is now an executive director of the airline at its Mumbai headquarters, has been awarded 85,000 pounds in damages and 500,000 pounds in cost.
However, the High Court judge granted a "stay" on payment, pending a possible application by the newspaper for permission to appeal.
During the eight-day trial, Capt Sharma, who was the Regional Director of Air India in charge of UK and Ireland, said: "the grossly defamatory and fundamentally false" front page article in The Evening Standard headlined "Sex Shame of Airline Chief", damaged both his reputation and health.
01/05/08 PTI/The Hindu

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