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Filipino-Indian businessman sues estranged wife for cyber libel

Published Dec 6, 2025 02:45 pm
A Filipino-Indian businessman has sued his estranged wife for cyber libel after a series of social media posts which, he claimed, alluded to him as the person who filed baseless charges against her new partner.
The complaint was filed before the Marikina City Prosecutor’s Office by Rajiv P. Chandiramani against Vicki Narwani who could not be contacted for comment as of posting time.
Chandiramani married Narwani, a Singaporean-Indian national, in 2013. They have a son.
He said that Narwani and their son moved to Dubai under “false pretenses” in mid-2025. Since then, he claimed he was restricted access and alleged that she even started bringing her son around with her new fiancé.
Based on the complaint, Narwani was charged with violation of Section 4(c)(4) of Republic Act No. 10175, the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, in relation to Articles 353 and 355 of the Revised Penal Code on libel.
Specifically, Chandiramani charged Narwani “for deliberately posting, public, malicious and defamatory statements tending to cause dishonor and damage” to his reputation.
The complaint was based on Narwani’s Instagram posts last Oct. 22, 2025 and Nov. 25, 2025.
Chandiramani -- owner of Rheana’s Trading, Inc. which is engaged in the business of buying, selling, distributing and importing electronic products and accessories – alleged that Narwani posted a photo of the certificate of final judgment issued by the Family Justice Courts of the Republic of Singapore on Nov. 30, 2022 which granted her divorce petition against the complainant.
Thereafter, he said that last Nov. 25, she posted a string of Instagram Stories claiming that several criminal cases were filed against her fiancée after she posted the final judgment of her divorce.
At the same time, he said that her social media posts alleged that her family and fiancée were being threatened.
Chandiramani said that while Narwani never explicitly named him as the person, the divorce certificate that her estranged wife posted identified him as the defendant.
“Vicki’s defamatory Instagram posts alluded to Rajiv as the person who caused the filing of supposed ‘baseless’ and ‘false’ criminal cases against her fiancé. And that he supposedly threatened her fiancé and her family,” Chandiramani’s complaint stated.
Thus, he said that alluding to him that he filed false and baseless cases against her fiancé “carries a negative connotation, suggesting unscrupulous or corrupt behavior and imputes that I have a proclivity in maliciously initiating baseless litigation, which is an ascription of the commission of a crime.”
He also alleged that Narwani’s social media posts were “clearly intended to destroy my reputation.”
It was not known immediately if the prosecutor’s office had acted on the complaint.
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