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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Illegally stored gas cylinders seized
Thane (PTI): Authorities have seized illegally stored 1,839 gas cylinders and seven vehicles worth over Rs 67 lakh in the Dombivli MIDC area of Thane district, officials said on Saturday.
A special vigilance team of the Mumbai Rationing Department detected an illegal storage of domestic and commercial LPG cylinders in Phase-2 of Dombivli (East).
Cylinders belonging to multiple gas agencies were found stockpiled in closed vehicles, unauthorised warehouses, and open sheds without mandatory permissions from the Explosives Department, Fire Department, or oil companies, according to an official release.
