Amazon India head gets her statement recorded at Lucknow police station

SRAWAN SHUKLA / LUCKNOW: After getting a stay on her arrest from the Allahabad High Court on Monday, the India head of the Amazon Prime Aparna Purohit got her statement recorded at the Hazratganj police station on Tuesday. The HC had granted a stay on her arrest but directed her to cooperate with the probe agency and get her statement recorded in a case filed against her and others in a controversy over the Tandav web series. She stayed at the police station for 3 hours and answered questions from the investigating officer who recorded her statement. During her probe, the team grilled her for 3 hours and fired 58 questions. Aparna answered only eight and choose to evade rest. An FIR was lodged by an SI on Jan 18 against Amazon India head Aparna Purohit, Tandav web series Director Ali Abbas, Producer Himanshu Kishan Mehar and writer Gaurav Solanki.

—Manjunath Kiran / AFP Members of the Karnataka private school associations march on the Anand Rao Circle flyover as they take part in a protest seeking the repeal of the Karnataka government order on tuition fee, in Bangalore on Tuesday.