Fake Facebook posts circulating in my name: Journalist Karan Thapar
New Delhi (PTI): Senior journalist Karan Thapar on Wednesday rejected as "false and fabricated" certain claims made about him on social media using the names of BBC India and Sun TV.
In a statement, Thapar said he reported the "fake and fraudulent" content to Facebook and also filed a police complaint to take down the "defamatory and malicious" posts and web pages.
"I deny the malicious and defamatory content circulating on social media which is false and fabricated. The general public is hereby requested not to believe or act upon it," Thapar, president of Infotainment Television, said.
The web pages in question showed Thapar purportedly promoting a money-making scheme.
"I hereby further clarify that I never gave the interview ascribed to me or made such statements as mentioned in the posts and web pages," he added.
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Rahul Gandhi is right, Adani must be arrested: Lalu
Patna (PTI): RJD president Lalu Prasad on Friday came out strongly in support of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's demand for "immediate arrest" of leading industrialist Gautam Adani.
The former chief minister of Bihar was responding to queries from journalists here about Rahul Gandhi's statement on the previous day, in the backdrop of charges of bribery and fraud against the Adani group in the US.
"Rahul Gandhi is right. Adani should be arrested," said Prasad, who is an old ally of the Congress and a staunch opponent of the BJP, to which Adani is said to be close.
The RJD president, who incidentally has been convicted in several fodder scam cases and is on bail, was also asked about prospects of the INDIA bloc, of which his party is a part, in Jharkhand, where the counting of votes for assembly polls is scheduled on Saturday.
The ailing septuagenarian replied, "I would like to remain focused on my statement that Adani must be arrested. I am not worried much about a new government (in Jharkhand) where we are already in power."
Jharkhand witnessed a straight battle between the INDIA bloc and the BJP-led NDA, which included the JD(U) headed by Nitish Kumar, Prasad's arch-rival and the current Chief Minister of Bihar.
