The family of Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Naveen Babu, who was found hanging at his official quarters in Kannur, has filed a defamation suit against former Kannur District Panchayat President P.P. Divya and TV Prasanthan for allegedly making false bribery allegations.
BJP leader and former Congress National Media Coordinator Radhika Khera has sent a legal notice to Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) President Deepak Baij, accusing his party of spreading defamatory rumors aimed at tarnishing her reputation.
It claimed that public information indicates that a juror who served during the trial was born in 1970, despite court officials listing the person's birth year as 1945.
If nothing changes, Heard will close out the last day of witness testimony in the six-week-long trial that started on April 11.
The suit is a result of various baseless, scurrilous, and manifestly false statements and allegations made against Rama Rao by Revanth Reddy seeking to falsely link the minister with the ongoing investigation being conducted by ED, said a statement from the minister's office
The investigation in the case has been handed over to the Crime Branch's Surveillance Cell.
A freelance journalist, an editor of a TV channel and its owner were arrested on Saturday over contents that were considered objectionable against the Chief Minister.
Five people including three media persons were arrested in a span of two days for allegedly uploading 'defamatory' post on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
The Editor's Guild has termed the police action as 'high-handed, arbitrary and authoritarian misuse of laws'.
Stating that the ‘biopic’ is not related to her party, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief said that she is “not Narendra Modi”.
