“The story gets more complicated. If he called up afterwards to apologize, he was self-admittedly wrong. And the Talmid Chochom who was humiliated came over to me to tell me that the other person had apologized – he wanted to thank me and to warn me from continuing any action against the askan, who he had been moichel.”
I don’t think that would be a deciding factor in determining if YOUR actions were halachically correct.