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Three Gujarat journalists get anticipatory bail

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AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court on Thursday granted anticipatory bails to the resident editor of the Ahmedabad edition of The Times of India, Bharat Desai, and its crime reporter, Prashant Dayal, in view of the complaints of sedition and criminal conspiracy filed against them by City Police Commissioner O.P. Mathur. The bail granted by Justice Z.K. Saiyed cover all the three complaints of similar nature filed by Mr. Mathur on Sunday and Monday following a series of articles in the front page of the newspaper alleging his links with the former underworld don, Abdul Latif, who was killed in an encounter in 1998.

Petition withdrawn

The newspaper, however, withdrew its petition praying for quashing of the complaints filed by Mr. Mathur. Withdrawing its plea, the advocate for the newspaper told the High Court that the State government was likely to consider a solution to the Mathur-TOI impasse over filing of the complaints.

It reserved its rights to file the petition afresh for quashing the complaints if the State government initiative failed to bear fruit.

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