Viral video is not Rishi Kapoor’s video on the night before he passed away, media misreports
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Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor passed away on the morning of April 30. Soon after, former actor and Congress leader Nagma shared a video of Rishi Kapoor claiming, “Clip of last night, with doctors at the Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai.”
Clip of last night, with doctors at the Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai. You are a Legend Rishiji you will always be in our hearts and mind pic.twitter.com/g1Tj01JbgW
— Nagma (@nagma_morarji) April 30, 2020
The clip also became part of several media reports. India Today and News Nation aired it as Kapoor’s video shot the night before he passed away. India Today later took down its broadcast from YouTube.
ABP News, Free Press Journal and The Tribune initially reported that the video was Kapoor’s “last video” but later changed the reports. While The Tribune deleted its tweet and posted a new one sans the word ‘last’, the others changed their reports. However, the URL of the report by Free Press Journal carries the word ‘last’.
Among the Hindi media outlets that carried similar reports were News18, Amar Ujala, Asianet News, Navbharat Times and News24. The report by Amar Ujala was later taken down and Navbharat Times has updated its report.
The same clip was shared by Congress leaders Kishore Upadhyay and Uday Bhanu Chib. Both claimed that the video was shot the night before Kapoor passed away.
The clip is also massively viral on social media. From the Facebook page Social World, it has drawn over 4 lakh views and 12,000 shares as of this writing.
Video form February
In the video, the man is singing ‘Tere Dard Se Dil Aabad Raha’ from Kapoor’s 1992 film ‘Deewana’. The clip was shot in February. This was pointed out by a Twitter user. Below is a screengrab that shows the upload date – February 29, 2020 – on YouTube by ‘Dk Kumar Sanu’. He is the same person in the video. Another clip from his channel shows him singing on the occasion of Holi. The cover picture of the channel is his photograph with Rishi Kapoor.
A video of Rishi Kapoor from February was shared by several Congress leaders and media outlets as the late actor’s last video. Ironically, India Today misreported the video and also ‘fact-checked’ it. Below is a tweet by India Today News Director Rahul Kanwal debunking Nagma’s tweet claiming that the video was shot the night before Kapoor passed away.
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Court can reject anticipatory bail but cannot direct accused to surrender: SC
New Delhi (PTI): A court can reject anticipatory bail of an accused but it has no jurisdiction to direct him to surrender before the trial court, the Supreme Court has said.
A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan made the observation while hearing a plea filed by a man accused of cheating and forgery.
"If the court wants to reject the anticipatory bail, it may do so, but the court has no jurisdiction to say that the petitioner should now surrender," the bench said.
The Jharkhand High Court had rejected anticipatory bail plea of the accused and asked him to surrender and seek regular bail.
In this case, a complaint had been filed before a magistrate alleging offences under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using forged document) and 120B read with 34 of the IPC, in connection with a land dispute.
The high court had dismissed the second anticipatory bail application of the accused on the ground that no new circumstances were shown.
It had relied on its earlier order rejecting his first anticipatory bail plea, in which the court directed the petitioner to surrender before the trial court and seek regular bail in terms of the decision in Satender Kumar Antil v. CBI.
The top court said such a direction was wholly without jurisdiction and said that if a court chooses to reject anticipatory bail, it may do so, but it cannot compel the accused to surrender.
