Woman who reported fake hijacking on Twitter is released on bail 24 May 2021 Phindile Kunene, who said on Twitter that she had been hijacked, launching a police search, has been released on bail after being arrested last Thursday. Stock photo. Image: STOCKSTUDIO44/123RF
A 29-year-old woman who took to social media to post about being kidnapped and hijacked has been released on R2,000 bail.
Phindile Kunene appeared briefly in the Protea magistrate s court on Monday charged with contravention of section 9 of the Commissioners of Oath Act making a false statement under oath.
Last week, Kunene claimed she had been hijacked and kidnapped, prompting a multidisciplinary police and emergency service search. Kunene, who was posting updates on social media, claimed she was texting from the boot of the car, where her hijackers had locked her, and was being taken to an unknown location.
A judicial magistrate on Saturday granted bail to two suspects in a case pertaining to the recent attack by a pet lion on a child in Gulberg.Police presented the suspects, Saad and Roshan, before.
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Greater Noida: Yogesh Talan, a former village pradhan accused by the Gautam Budh Nagar administration of giving “false information” to the media, was granted interim bail by the district court on Thursday. Talan was booked under sections 188 (disobedience of public servant’s order), 269 & 270 (spread of disease) of the IPC and sections of the Epidemic Diseases Act after the administration was upset with his comments.
At Talan’s village, Mewla Gopalgarh in the Jewar area, some people who were ill and had Covid symptoms had been seeking treatment under a neem tree and were also being administered glucose drips there. Talan had spoken to visiting journalists. After news reports, the administration carried out inquiries and sent medical teams there.