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A man sued a woman for £1.9m in Singapore for “emotional trauma” after she refused to be his girlfriend after four years of friendship.
K Kawshigan, head of drone company D1 Racing, filed two lawsuits against Nora Tan Shu Mei after she rejected him, claiming her actions damaged his “stellar reputation” and caused him to lose at least five business partnerships.
Ms Tan has filed a counterclaim seeking money she says she spent protecting her home from Mr Kawshigan and on counseling sessions.
The woman says she had to install a digital door viewer, alarm sensor and smart video doorbell to ward off the unwanted suitor, and is seeking around £900 in total to cover the costs of equipment and future advice.
K Kawshigan (pictured), head of drone company D1 Racing, filed two lawsuits against Nora Tan Shu Mei after she turned him down, claiming her actions damaged his “stellar reputation” and caused him to lose at least five partnerships. commercial.
He initially sued Ms. Tan for S$22,000 (approximately £13,600) alleging that she “breached an agreement” to improve their relationship, but the Court of First Instance dismissed it as an abuse of process.
The court said it would not be complicit in Kawshigan’s “calculated attempt to coerce Ms. Tan into commitment,” CNA reported.
Now, however, Mr Kawshigan is suing Ms Tan for S$3 million (£1.9 million) in the Singapore High Court for a variety of damages he claims she caused him, including the trauma he says he suffered when she told him that she only saw him. as a friend.
A Singapore High Court listing says the case is scheduled for February 9.
The couple met in 2016 and became friends. Both are understood to be mothers of the Bugis Junction Rotary Club, a recreational club for business leaders.
However, Ms. Tan said their friendship began to unravel when they “misaligned on how they viewed their relationship.”
Ms Tan said she told Mr Kawshigan that she saw him only as a friend, but that he considered her his “closest friend”. Later, Ella Tan said that she wished to reduce her social interactions.
Kawshigan, the director of drone racing company D1 Racing, accused Tan of defamatory conduct against him in June 2019 and December 2020.
According to Channel News Asia, a Magistrates Court ruling published on January 28 shows that Mr. Kawshigan filed two lawsuits against Ms. Tan after their friendship broke up when she told him that she only saw him as a friend. Pictured: People walk along the Marina Bay promenade in Singapore on February 1.
He says that she made false accusations about him with other parties present, who listened in on their conversations. He claims that Ms. Tan told him that she felt harassed by her actions, which included getting in her way in a doorway.
Mr. Kawshigan also says that she said aloud, “He is unnecessarily serving me court documents personally and has not tried other forms available to him,” which he says is defamatory. The man said this was said near a microphone in July 2022 and was therefore heard by other people nearby.
He claims that Ms. Tan’s actions caused damage to his “stellar reputation” and resulted in “trauma, depression” over the past two years.
He also claims that he has lost five business partnerships as a result of the ongoing disagreements and is now struggling to win new customers.
In her counterclaim, seen by CNA, Ms. Tan has denied much of Mr. Kawshigan’s claims, according to the news outlet.
From November 2016 to September 2020, he says, they began to have arguments and differences of opinion, which damaged their relationship.
That’s when she asked to have less communication and meetings with him, she says, telling Kawshigan that they were just friends when he asked her to clarify the status of their friendship.
After this, he says that he did not respond to requests for mediation.
A Singapore High Court listing says the case is scheduled for February 9. Pictured: A walkway at The Supertree Grove at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore (file photo)
In October 2020, he says he found out that Mr. Kawshigan appeared in front of his house and said that he had filed court documents against him.
Ms. Tan also says that she was contacted by a woman claiming to be Kawshigan’s counselor and participated in sessions with him until May 2021. Similarly, she agreed to participate in “healing” sessions in November 2021, until May 2022.
The Kawshigan high court lawsuit was filed when Tan said she didn’t want to talk to him anymore, which she reportedly said in an email “forced him to escalate.”
Ms. Tan says she was later contacted by a reporter about a high court case, and was also sent emails from people claiming to be Kawshigan’s lawyers.
It also says that Mr. Kawshigan once appeared outside his home in July 2022 with a woman and refused to leave when she told him to.
Much of this, he says, was intended to cause her harassment and distress, and force her to communicate with him. Her lawyers are using the ‘fair dealing’ defense over her allegedly defamatory comments, CNA said.