En­ter­tain­er Ray­mond Ram­nar­ine is warn­ing the pub­lic that shar­ing an on­line video that is defam­a­to­ry to him could ex­pose them to lit­i­ga­tion. In a le­gal let­ter post­ed on so­cial me­dia ad­dressed to mem­bers of the pub­lic, Ram­nar­ine's at­tor­ney Kevin Rati­ram stat­ed that he acts on be­half of Ram­nar­ine, leader of the mu­sic band Dil E Nadan.

The let­ter stat­ed, "It has come to my client’s at­ten­tion that there is, cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia, a video where­by a cer­tain in­di­vid­ual di­rects com­ments at an­oth­er (not my client). In the said video, cer­tain sug­ges­tions and in­sin­u­a­tions are made in re­spect of my client and the per­son to whom the video was di­rect­ed. These sug­ges­tions and in­sin­u­a­tions are com­plete­ly false and with­out any ba­sis what­so­ev­er, and are there­fore high­ly defam­a­to­ry of my client."

Rati­ram said the video has caused Ram­nar­ine much emo­tion­al dis­tress, and ac­tion shall be tak­en against the mak­er of the video.

He con­tin­ued, "Mem­bers of the pub­lic are put on no­tice that since the said video is defam­a­to­ry in na­ture, they are re­quest­ed to

re­frain from shar­ing and/or dis­sem­i­nat­ing same in any form or man­ner what­so­ev­er."

He said this in­cludes the shar­ing/dis­sem­i­na­tion of same via What­sApp, Face­book, Tik­Tok, In­sta­gram, X (for­mer­ly Twit­ter), or any oth­er so­cial me­dia plat­forms, as well as via email. Oth­er­wise, Rati­ram said they could face le­gal ac­tion. "Please be in­formed that any­one who shares or dis­sem­i­nates a defam­a­to­ry video can him­self be li­able for defama­tion, and be made to pay dam­ages (mon­e­tary com­pen­sa­tion) for same."