{"id":22676,"date":"2025-10-09T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22676"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:04:09","slug":"uk-court-fines-350000-penalty-on-adil-raja-in-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22676","title":{"rendered":"UK court fines \u00a3350,000 penalty on Adil Raja in defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A UK court has ruled in favour of former Pakistani military officer Brigadier (retd) Rashid Naseer in a high-profile defamation case against YouTuber and former army officer Major (retd) Adil Farooq Raja, declaring Raja\u2019s allegations \u201cfalse, baseless, and malicious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justice Richard Spearman of London\u2019s High Court (LHC) ordered Adil Raja to pay \u00a350,000 in damages and an additional \u00a3300,000 in court and legal costs, while also directing him to immediately stop publishing false statements and issue a written apology.<\/p>\n<p>{{pdf}}<\/p>\n<p>The detailed judgment found that Raja had made \u201cserious and deliberately false\u201d accusations against Brigadier Naseer through Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, without offering any credible evidence. The court said Raja\u2019s remarks were \u201cinflammatory and intended to damage Brigadier Naseer\u2019s reputation and manipulate public perception,\u201d adding that they had caused particular harm within the British Pakistani community.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Spearman observed that freedom of expression does not extend to spreading unfounded allegations and said the case would serve as a legal precedent for online defamation, confirming that social media posts can be admissible evidence in such proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier Naseer\u2019s legal team presented what the court described as \u201ccredible and consistent evidence,\u201d leading to a decisive ruling in their favour. Following the verdict, Brigadier Naseer said, \u201cThe truth has exposed the lies, and this verdict is a victory for truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Case History<\/p>\n<p>In earlier proceedings, the court had already ruled that Raja\u2019s social media statements were defamatory and lacked a factual basis. The judge found that Raja had made the remarks \u201cas matters of fact, not opinion,\u201d and had failed to provide any credible evidence to support them. Raja\u2019s attempts to halt the trial and his claims that Pakistan\u2019s judiciary and intelligence agencies controlled the proceedings were also dismissed by the court.<\/p>\n<p>The UK High Court\u2019s final ruling \u2014 delivered by Judge Richard Spearman \u2014 stated that Raja\u2019s allegations were \u201cfalse, inflammatory, and intended to harm Brigadier Naseer\u2019s reputation.\u201d The court ordered Raja to pay \u00a350,000 in damages and \u00a3300,000 in legal costs, along with issuing an apology and refraining from further defamatory publications.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict marks the latest development in a long-running legal and reputational battle for Raja, who has previously faced reports of arrest in London for inciting hatred against state institutions and property seizure orders by an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Islamabad for provoking violence through online content.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK court has ruled in favour of former Pakistani military officer Brigadier (retd) Rashid Naseer in a high-profile defamation case against YouTuber and former army officer Major (retd) Adil Farooq Raja, declaring Raja\u2019s allegations \u201cfalse, baseless, and malicious.\u201d Justice Richard Spearman of London\u2019s High Court (LHC) ordered Adil Raja to pay \u00a350,000 in damages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}