A six months imprisonment has been sentenced to a journalist who is Jaipur in a defamation case by the Rajasthan High Court, which also slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 each on the owner, editor and a correspondent of the daily.<\/p>\n
While hearing the contempt petition, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Amitav Roy and Justice Mahendra Maheshwari, ordered that if the fine amount is not deposited in two weeks the three will serve one month imprisonment.<\/p>\n
According to the Additional Advocate General G R Punia\u00a0,”Churu correspondent of news paper ‘Dainik Prakash Kunj’, Desh Deepak, had reported on October 10, 2011 alleging that the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Churu had remanded a criminal in judicial custody instead of police custody by accepting a bribe and misusing his position.”<\/p>\n
The CJM issued notices to the concerned persons and referred the matter to the High Court as criminal contempt.<\/p>\n
The High Court sentenced Deepak and imposed a penalty of Rs 50,000 each on the owner of the news paper, S M Gautam, Editor Hemant Sharma and a Sikar based correspondent Sadik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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