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SINGAPORE: Instead of solving the matter of 479 foreign students being uninsured - which he had admitted were caused by his management's mistakes - Mr Kannappan Chettiar focussed on pinpointing blame on other parties when he learnt that the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) had suspended Stansfield College and Singapore Institute of Commerce, CASE's lawyer Cavinder Bull said on Monday.
Referring to an email Mr Chettiar had sent to CASE, NTUC Income - the other party he is suing for some S$10 million in losses - and several government agencies, Mr Bull grilled the businessman for the third day of the lawsuit on why his management had not rectified the lapses which led to what he claimed were wrongful suspensions, although the problem had been already flagged some six months earlier.
Mr Bull also argued that Mr Chettiar did not suffer any "substantial damages", nor did it cause a drop in his revenue, as a result of the suspension of the two private schools.
In the documents he had submitted to the court, to prove the sums refunded to the students who withdrew from the two schools, there was no evidence indicating that the withdrawals or refunds were a result of the suspension, he added.
Mr Chettiar disputed the lawyer's suggestion.
Under cross-examination by NTUC Income's lawyer, Lok Vi Ming, Mr Chettiar claimed that the non-insurance of the 479 students resulted from "administrative oversight".
The hearing continues. - TODAY/vm
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