Junaid Khan, who is charged with attempting to extort sitar player Anoushka Shankar, daughter of musician Ravi Shankar, has been granted bail by a Delhi court. According to Yamban, Junaid was required to provide personal and surety bonds of Rs. 50,000 each. he had been arrested on by the Special Cell in Mumbai on September…
Category: Non-U.S.
NZ: PIs should not be restricted more than public – Sir Geoffrey
Private investigators should not be restricted from taking photos or recording people any more than the general public is, Law Commission president Geoffrey Palmer says. However, restrictions on the general public were too lax, he said. There was “no justification” for private investigators to be singled out for restrictions when ordinary members of the public…
Tw: Wife catches lawsuit instead of cheater
Taiwan – To catch a cheating partner with help from private investigators, be careful to follow the law or the police will go after you instead of the cheater. A woman and her accomplices were arrested for violating the law for privacy protection by hiring private detectors to unlawfully install bugs on her spouse’s vehicle…
Bloggers and anonymity – again
Oliver Kamm writes: Paul Waugh of the Evening Standard writes an excellent political blog, which I enjoy reading. But he’s inexplicably veered into nonsense on the question of bloggers’ anonymity. His starting point is the decision by Brooke Magnanti to out herself as the blogger and former call girl Belle de Jour. I’ve read Ms…