VISHAM PANDAY, GOLD AND DIESEL DEALER, convicted fraudster and brother to the more infamous
Thoshan Panday, has demanded that Pietermaritzburg magistrate Ashin Singh make good on his threat to have him charged with defeating the ends of justice. So he told Noseweek when he called to demand a right of reply after getting a mention in a Nose227 story titled ‘Foul-mouthed magistrate threatened me’.
As it happens, the alleged threat mentioned in the headline was not directed at Panday, but at The Witness newspaper’s court reporter, Sharika Regchand.
Magistrate Singh had accused the paper and reporter Regchand of allowing themselves to be used by the likes of Visham Panday to tarnish his name in their reporting of court proceedings. In the course of the row that followed, magistrate Singh is said to have called The Witness reporter “a bitch” and accused her of “sleeping with her sources”.
Those sources, magistrate Singh believed, included Visham Panday (whom Noseweek, always well-informed, recalled was a convicted fraudster and brother to better-known, politically well-connected profiteer Thoshan Panday, whom Noseweek gently described as “dodgy”).
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