SINGAPORE, July 17 — Recently-disbarred lawyer M Ravi pleaded guilty on Wednesday to nine charges spanning two years, including strangling a paralegal at a law firm where he worked and pushing a priest at a temple. The 55-year-old, whose full name is Ravi Madasamy, was convicted of six charges of voluntarily causing hurt, one charge under the Protection from Harassment Act, one charge of using criminal force and one charge of public nuisance. His offences included hurling vulgarities and slapping members of the public, as well as causing a restaurant worker to suffer a head laceration, and slapping an MRT station staff member.
Another 10 similar charges will be taken into consideration for sentencing, which has been set down for Aug 2. Ravi has three previous convictions in 2004, 2009 and 2018, involving various offences such as disorderly behaviour, mischief and causing hurt by rash act. In 2018, Ravi was ordered to undergo 18 months’ mandatory treatment for his psychiatric condition bipolar disorder after he assaulted two lawyers, among other charges.
In May this year, Ravi was struck off as a lawyer after a disciplinary hearing over Ravi's false statements about then-president Halimah Yacob and other senior figures and a separate incident where he disrupted a court hearing. On Nov 22, 2021, Ravi was at KK Cheng Law LLC, where he was practising law. He blamed a paralegal for failing to print documents for a hearing, and threw a glass perfume bottle at him, hitting his r.