<p>Having watched numerous web series, national and international, you might be thinking that the popular K-drama <i>Squid Game</i> or OTT blockbusters like <i>Aashram</i> or <i>Panchayat </i>might be the biggest hits in India. But here comes the shocking twist! The Indian web series, which hit OTT this year, <i>Criminal Justice</i> Season 4 wears the crown. Yes, you heard it right. In the wide range of oceanic content on Netflix, Prime Video, ZEE5, JioHotstar and JioCinema, <i>Criminal Justice: A Family Matter</i> stood out as India's most-watched original streaming series as of the first half of 2025. Leading the chart at the very top, this legal drama has bagged an astonishing 27.7 million views.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>India's biggest OTT hit so far in 2025<br>&nbsp;</h2><p>India's most watched and biggest OTT hit in the first half of 2025 is not Bobby Deol's <i>Aashram</i>, Jitendra Kumar’s <i>Panchayat</i> or global sensation <i>Squid Game Season 3;</i> it's Pankaj Tripathi's <i>Criminal Justice: A Family Matter </i>(Season 4). The viewers are impressed by Tripathi's quiet yet powerful performance as Madhav Mishra, and gave the show a massive viewership count of over 27 million on JioHotstar.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>The rankings are a result of the report, Top 50 streaming originals in India, released by <i>Ormax Media</i> for the first half of 2025. Ranking first in the list is <i>Criminal Justice: A Family Matter </i>with 27.7 million views, surpassing <i>Ek Badnaam Aashram</i> Season 3 Part 2 (27.1 million) at second place and <i>Panchayat</i> Season 4 (23.8 million) at third place on Amazon Prime Video. Notably, the rankings are based on the number of unique individuals who watched the show or its episodes at least once. For shows, one full episode is required to be watched, and for films, a minimum of 30 seconds of watch time.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>What sets Pankaj Tripathi's Criminal Justice: A Family Matter apart?&nbsp;</h2>

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<p>The new season was produced by Applause Entertainment in collaboration with BBC Studios. The show is a courtroom drama showcasing Pankaj Tripathi as advocate Madhav Mishra, delivering a standout performance. Other stars from the show include Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Surveen Chawla, Khushboo Atre and Asha Negi. The series delivered relatable emotional arcs and layered performances, which earned it record-breaking views without a marquee star cast.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The first three episodes of <i>Criminal Justice</i> Season 4 were released on May 29, 2025, with the remaining dropping weekly. Pankaj Tripathi's franchise, <i>Criminal Justice</i>, streaming on JioHotstar, proves that quality content that prioritises script, narration, and performances rather than marketing gimmicks will always be a hit with audiences.</p><p><br>Other top hits that made it to the list are <i>Paatal Lok </i>(Amazon Prime Video), <i>Squid Game S3</i> (Netflix), <i>The Legend of Hanuman S6</i>, <i>The Royals, The</i> <i>Secret of the Shieldars, Chidiya Udd </i>and <i>Jewel Thief</i>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

Not Squid Game Season 3, Aashram or Panchayat, Criminal Justice Season 4 becomes India's most watched OTT show as of first half of 2025. The show topped the chart with impressive 27.7 million views.

Having watched numerous web series, national and international, you might be thinking that the popular K-drama Squid Game or OTT blockbusters like Aashram or Panchayat might be the biggest hits in India. But here comes the shocking twist! The Indian web series, which hit OTT this year, Criminal Justice Season 4 wears the crown. Yes, you heard it right. In the wide range of oceanic content on Netflix, Prime Video, ZEE5, JioHotstar and JioCinema, Criminal Justice: A Family Matter stood out as India's most-watched original streaming series as of the first half of 2025. Leading the chart at the very top, this legal drama has bagged an astonishing 27.7 million views. India's biggest OTT hit so far in 2025 India's most watched and biggest OTT hit in the first half of 2025 is not Bobby Deol's Aashram, Jitendra Kumar’s Panchayat or global sensation Squid Game Season 3; it's Pankaj Tripathi's Criminal Justice: A Family Matter (Season 4). The viewers are impressed by Tripathi's quiet yet powerful performance as Madhav Mishra, and gave the show a massive viewership count of over 27 million on JioHotstar.

<p>Not Squid Game Season 3, Aashram or Panchayat, Criminal Justice Season 4 becomes India's most watched OTT show as of first half of 2025. The show topped the chart with impressive 27.7 million views.</p>

India's biggest OTT hit in 2025 so far: No big star cast, no gimmick, yet beats Aashram, Panchayat, Squid Game 3 with 27.7M views

<p>Pankaj Tripathi as Madhav Mishra is always fun to watch. After a long wait, the actor has made a return with his much-awaited Criminal Justice season 4. Released on May 29, the show, also titled Criminal Justice: A Family Matter, gripped the viewers' attention right from the first episode itself. Evey week, a new episode is released. The show is set to wrap with the eighth episode, and ahead of the finale, here are all the details that you need to know.</p><h2>When is the Criminal Justice Season 4 finale coming out?</h2><p>Pankaj Tripathi as Madhav Mishra in season 4 is solving a gripping murder case. After seven episodes, each coming with a new twist, the show is heading for the final episode in which the killer will be revealed.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Episode 8 is scheduled to release on July 3, 2025, on Jio Hotstar. The episode will be streaming from midnight.</p>

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<h2>What is the plot of Criminal Justice: A Family Matter?</h2><p>Season 4 revolves around Madhav Mishra, a shrewd and calm lawyer who has never lost a case. In this season, Madhav is solving the murder of Roshni Saluja (Asha Negi). This time, it’s a family matter, as the affluent Nagpal family is embroiled in the highly publicised case. As a defence lawyer, Mishra represents Dr. Raj Nagpal, a surgeon (Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub), who was in a relationship with Roshni. Additionally, Raj’s estranged wife, Anju Nagpal (Surveen Chawla), who lives in the same building but in a different apartment, is also accused.<br>&nbsp;</p><p>The couple shares a teenage daughter, Ira, who has Asperger’s syndrome. Then there’s Raj’s mother, Gurmeet. The question of who murdered Roshni remains unanswered.</p>

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<h2>Criminal Justice: A Family Matter OTT viewership</h2><p>The show has been one of the most-watched series in June. In the week of June 16–22, it garnered 5.7 million views, according to Ormax. Throughout the month, the show amassed 29.7 million views.</p><h2>Criminal Justice Season 4 Review</h2><p>For a series in its fourth season, the template of a courtroom drama mixed with police investigation could have fallen flat or felt repetitive. But to the makers' credit, the freshness remains, and so does the curiosity. There are several moments in the show when you would think you know who the killer is, but a little detail would pivot the plot just then. Well, if that's not the beauty of a well-crafted whodunnit, then what is? <a href="https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/criminal-justice-season-4-review-pankaj-tripathi-surveen-chawla-shoulder-a-gripping-courtroom-story-1748511347920">Read the full review here.</a></p>

Pankaj Tripathi as Madhav Mishra is always fun to watch. After a long wait, the actor made a return with his much-awaited Criminal Justice season 4. 

Pankaj Tripathi as Madhav Mishra is always fun to watch. After a long wait, the actor has made a return with his much-awaited Criminal Justice season 4. Released on May 29, the show, also titled Criminal Justice: A Family Matter, gripped the viewers' attention right from the first episode itself. Evey week, a new episode is released. The show is set to wrap with the eighth episode, and ahead of the finale, here are all the details that you need to know. When is the Criminal Justice Season 4 finale coming out? Pankaj Tripathi as Madhav Mishra in season 4 is solving a gripping murder case. After seven episodes, each coming with a new twist, the show is heading for the final episode in which the killer will be revealed. Episode 8 is scheduled to release on July 3, 2025, on Jio Hotstar. The episode will be streaming from midnight.

<p>Pankaj Tripathi as Madhav Mishra in season 4 is solving the gripping murder case. After seven episodes, each with a new twist and turn, the show is heading for the final episode in which the killer will be revealed.</p>

Pankaj Tripathi's Criminal Justice Season 4 Episode 8: When is the season finale coming out - plot, release date and more

<p>People will permanent tattoos are more likely to be arrested and convicted than others, a study published in&nbsp;'Deviant Behavior' has revealed.</p>

<p>This was primarily due to persistent stigmatisation against people with tattoos, regardless of their actual innocence or guilt.</p>

<p>The fact that individuals with tattoos are much more frequent among prison inmates than among the general population propelled the researchers to examine whether the stigmatisation had also made inroads into our criminal justice system.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Study author Rima Dzhansarayeva and her colleagues were interested in the whole criminal justice process – from arrest to incarceration.</p>

<p>The results were shocking, based on data from 20,745 adolescents and 17,700 caregivers who completed surveys at the study’s inception.</p>

<h2><strong>Results of the study</strong></h2>

<p>The findings revealed significant gender disparities in the criminal justice system. Men were more than twice as likely to experience arrest, nearly four times more likely to face conviction, and three times more likely to be sentenced to incarceration when compared to women.</p>

<p>Additionally, men were more inclined to have permanent tattoos and reported increased levels of delinquent behaviour.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Individuals with tattoos reported heightened delinquency rates, greater association with delinquent peers, and an increased likelihood of receiving public assistance. Notably,&nbsp;White participants were less likely to have tattoos in comparison to individuals of other racial backgrounds.</p>

<p>When analyzing individuals with tattoos separately, the disparities persisted. Men with tattoos were over 2.5 times more likely to experience arrest, 1.8 times more likely to face conviction, and twice as likely to be incarcerated compared to those men not having tattoos.</p>

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<p>Women with tattoos faced 1.75 times higher odds of arrest, 1.68 times higher odds of conviction, and 1.9 times higher odds of incarceration when compared to women without tattoos.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>“The results revealed that, for males and females, having a permanent tattoo was associated with an increased risk of being arrested, convicted, and incarcerated even after controlling for the effects of self-reported crime and delinquency, levels of self-control, exposure to delinquent peers, and key demographic factors. Taken together, these results suggest that having a permanent tattoo may have a labeling effect that is used to process persons through the criminal justice system,” the study authors concluded.</p>

<p><em>(With inputs from agencies)</em></p>


People will permanent tattoos are more likely to be arrested and convicted than others, a study published in 'Deviant Behavior' has revealed. This was primarily due to persistent stigmatisation against people with tattoos, regardless of their actual innocence or guilt.

People will permanent tattoos are more likely to be arrested and convicted than others, a study published in 'Deviant Behavior' has revealed. This was primarily due to persistent stigmatisation against people with tattoos, regardless of their actual innocence or guilt. The fact that individuals with tattoos are much more frequent among prison inmates than among the general population propelled the researchers to examine whether the stigmatisation had also made inroads into our criminal justice system. Study author Rima Dzhansarayeva and her colleagues were interested in the whole criminal justice process – from arrest to incarceration. The results were shocking, based on data from 20,745 adolescents and 17,700 caregivers who completed surveys at the study’s inception. Results of the study The findings revealed significant gender disparities in the criminal justice system. Men were more than twice as likely to experience arrest, nearly four times more likely to face conviction, and three times more likely to be sentenced to incarceration when compared to women. Additionally, men were more inclined to have permanent tattoos and reported increased levels of delinquent behaviour. Individuals with tattoos reported heightened delinquency rates, greater association with delinquent peers, and an increased likelihood of receiving public assistance. Notably, White participants were less likely to have tattoos in comparison to individuals of other racial backgrounds. When analyzing individuals with tattoos separately, the disparities persisted. Men with tattoos were over 2.5 times more likely to experience arrest, 1.8 times more likely to face conviction, and twice as likely to be incarcerated compared to those men not having tattoos. Watch: WION Edge: Alexa Meade Body Painting × Women with tattoos faced 1.75 times higher odds of arrest, 1.68 times higher odds of conviction, and 1.9 times higher odds of incarceration when compared to women without tattoos. Also read: 800 tattoos and counting: Mother of two barred from tattoo shops, pubs, and school due to extreme appearance “The results revealed that, for males and females, having a permanent tattoo was associated with an increased risk of being arrested, convicted, and incarcerated even after controlling for the effects of self-reported crime and delinquency, levels of self-control, exposure to delinquent peers, and key demographic factors. Taken together, these results suggest that having a permanent tattoo may have a labeling effect that is used to process persons through the criminal justice system,” the study authors concluded. (With inputs from agencies)

Suspects with tattoos more likely to be arrested, convicted: Study

<p>The fan-favourite and critically acclaimed show is back with a twisted case at hand: the death of a popular child star Zara Ahuja, and the prime suspect of her murder - her own brother, Mukul Ahuja. Disney+ Hotstars’ most-awaited Rohan Sippy directorial, Hotstar Specials’ Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach, produced by Applause Entertainment in association with BBC Studios on August 26 2022.</p>

<p>With wit and humour by his side, the uncanny lawyer Madhav Mishra, reprised by Pankaj Tripathi returns for the third instalment of Criminal Justice along with Shweta Basu Prasad, Swastika Mukherjee, Purab Kohli, Aditya Gupta, Deshna Dugad and Gaurav Gera.&nbsp;<br />
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As the series gears up for its release on Disney+ Hotstar on 26 August, Swastika Mukherjee shares how her character as a mother closely mirrors her own personality.</p>

<p>“Whenever I essay the role of a mother; life becomes easier. The task at hand also becomes easier because the instincts and emotions are always there when you are a mother in your personal life too. The only thing required is a trigger which the screenplay gives you. In the series, both the kids are going through misery and are part of a dysfunctional family, so it was important for me to transport both the actors as kids in my mind,” says &nbsp;Swastika.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The award-winning show Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach will stream exclusively on Disney+ Hotstar. Will Madhav Mishra be able to put aside his own doubts and inhibitions about his client? Viewers will find answers to this, and more, very soon!&nbsp;</p>

<p>Tune into Disney+ Hotstar to watch your favourite lawyer Madhav Mishra take a stand for juvenile justice, streaming on 26 August 2022</p>


The fan-favourite and critically acclaimed show is back with a twisted case at hand: the death of a popular child star Zara Ahuja, and the prime suspect of her murder - her own brother, Mukul Ahuja.

The fan-favourite and critically acclaimed show is back with a twisted case at hand: the death of a popular child star Zara Ahuja, and the prime suspect of her murder - her own brother, Mukul Ahuja. Disney+ Hotstars’ most-awaited Rohan Sippy directorial, Hotstar Specials’ Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach, produced by Applause Entertainment in association with BBC Studios on August 26 2022. With wit and humour by his side, the uncanny lawyer Madhav Mishra, reprised by Pankaj Tripathi returns for the third instalment of Criminal Justice along with Shweta Basu Prasad, Swastika Mukherjee, Purab Kohli, Aditya Gupta, Deshna Dugad and Gaurav Gera. As the series gears up for its release on Disney+ Hotstar on 26 August, Swastika Mukherjee shares how her character as a mother closely mirrors her own personality. “Whenever I essay the role of a mother; life becomes easier. The task at hand also becomes easier because the instincts and emotions are always there when you are a mother in your personal life too. The only thing required is a trigger which the screenplay gives you. In the series, both the kids are going through misery and are part of a dysfunctional family, so it was important for me to transport both the actors as kids in my mind,” says Swastika. The award-winning show Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach will stream exclusively on Disney+ Hotstar. Will Madhav Mishra be able to put aside his own doubts and inhibitions about his client? Viewers will find answers to this, and more, very soon! Tune into Disney+ Hotstar to watch your favourite lawyer Madhav Mishra take a stand for juvenile justice, streaming on 26 August 2022

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<p>On Dec. 10, 1976, George Clarence Seitz left his home in Jamaica, Queens, to get a haircut and never came back. His disappearance drew little attention at the time and was all but forgotten in the 45 years that followed.</p>

<p>But decades later, Seitz was at the centre of a much more modern mystery — one that captivated amateur online detectives and led investigators down high-tech trails seeking clues.</p>

<p>This week, in a case with all the makings of a prime-time television drama, law enforcement officials said decomposing bones they had found in a Queens backyard two years ago were Seitz’s long-buried remains, and they charged another Queens man with his murder.</p>

<p>The motive was robbery, the authorities said. Seitz, a reclusive 81-year-old veteran of World War I, had been known to carry all his money with him — often thousands of dollars. He was killed and dismembered, a Queens prosecutor said, before being buried in the backyard of the home of Martin Motta — one of the owners of the barbershop that Seitz had gone to visit that day in 1976.</p>

<p>Motta, 74, was arraigned this week and was charged with second-degree murder.</p>

<p>To crack the case, investigators crisscrossed the country and used genetic material from Seitz’s remains cross-referenced with public genealogy data from at-home testing services to find his surviving relatives.</p>

<p>“This was a 2 1/2-year investigation, we were relentless, and we did not stop,” Mike Gaine, a detective with Queens South Homicide, said Thursday at a news conference at Police Department headquarters.</p>

<p>The first break in the case came from a cryptic tip in 2019, when a woman called a detective in Queens and said she had lived in the borough in the 1970s and wanted to get something off her chest. When she was about 10 years old, she told officers, she had seen her mother’s boyfriend cutting up a body and burying it in the backyard.</p>

<p>The woman had waited decades to tell the police because she was afraid of intimidation and reprisals, police said. A day after her call, officers unearthed decaying human remains from a backyard lot in the Richmond Hill section of Queens, exactly where the woman had described.</p>

<p>The discovery, in all its lurid detail and historical sweep, was exactly the sort of true-crime mystery that can still captivate the public. Armchair detectives bandied the facts around in online forums, and real investigators dug into a case that appeared to provide precious few leads.</p>

<p>For nearly two years, the remains were unidentified, even after the city’s medical examiner put together a DNA profile of the victim. It was not until this February, when the Queens district attorney’s office and the police sought help from an outside laboratory, that investigators were able to locate potential relatives using advanced technology and publicly available genome data from companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com.</p>

<p>Seitz was identified not long thereafter. The ensuing investigation — which involved witness interviews and records searches spanning five states — led them to “crucial evidence” that linked Motta to the crime, the Queens district attorney, Melinda Katz, said in a statement.</p>

<p>It is unclear how or when Seitz may have made it to the shop, but investigators said he was killed by Motta not long after. His body was dismembered before being buried in pieces in the backyard of 87-72 115th St., where Motta lived at the time.</p>

<p>Motta made no statement at this arraignment, according to Daniel A. Saunders, a prosecutor with the Queens district attorney’s office. He was denied bail and is being held at Rikers Island. A lawyer for Motta did not respond to a request for comment.</p>

<p>Neighbours on the quiet residential block were stunned by the discovery in 2019, when police investigators and a police dog descended on the 115th Street property. John Guido, who had lived on the street for 40 years, said then that he had observed 13 officers — one in a white evidence suit — combing the backyard, and the dog frantically digging.</p>

<p>Guido said then that the home had been a rental property through the 1970s and had attracted “really bad guys.” The property was a blight on the otherwise quaint block, said another neighbour, Bill Corsa, who had also lived there for nearly four decades.</p>

<p>Lochan Rampersad, 55, has lived around the corner from the home on 115th Street for nearly 20 years. He had never known Motta, he said this week, but he vividly remembered the chilling day investigators had discovered Seitz’s bones in the very yard where he had once attended neighbourhood barbecues.</p>

<p>“It was kind of scary,” he said.</p>

<p>Michelle Jones said she owned a salon called “Sistas in Style” that operated in the space where Motta and his brother, Benjamin, ran their barbershop from the 1970s until 1985. She said that four NYPD officers visited her in early 2019, around the time Seitz’s bones were found in the backyard of Motta’s former residence. The detectives asked if she knew the Mottas.</p>

<p>Jones told the officers the truth: She did not. But during her time managing the space — 2016 to 2019 — she said that random men also stopped by asking if she knew the Mottas and telling stories about them.</p>

<p>“Crazy stuff, that they was into gambling, dogfighting,” she said. “Oh, my God, the stories I heard.”</p>


On Dec. 10, 1976, George Clarence Seitz left his home in Jamaica, Queens, to get a haircut and never came back. His disappearance drew little attention at the time and was all but forgotten in the 45 years that followed.

On Dec. 10, 1976, George Clarence Seitz left his home in Jamaica, Queens, to get a haircut and never came back. His disappearance drew little attention at the time and was all but forgotten in the 45 years that followed. But decades later, Seitz was at the centre of a much more modern mystery — one that captivated amateur online detectives and led investigators down high-tech trails seeking clues. This week, in a case with all the makings of a prime-time television drama, law enforcement officials said decomposing bones they had found in a Queens backyard two years ago were Seitz’s long-buried remains, and they charged another Queens man with his murder. The motive was robbery, the authorities said. Seitz, a reclusive 81-year-old veteran of World War I, had been known to carry all his money with him — often thousands of dollars. He was killed and dismembered, a Queens prosecutor said, before being buried in the backyard of the home of Martin Motta — one of the owners of the barbershop that Seitz had gone to visit that day in 1976. Motta, 74, was arraigned this week and was charged with second-degree murder. To crack the case, investigators crisscrossed the country and used genetic material from Seitz’s remains cross-referenced with public genealogy data from at-home testing services to find his surviving relatives. “This was a 2 1/2-year investigation, we were relentless, and we did not stop,” Mike Gaine, a detective with Queens South Homicide, said Thursday at a news conference at Police Department headquarters. The first break in the case came from a cryptic tip in 2019, when a woman called a detective in Queens and said she had lived in the borough in the 1970s and wanted to get something off her chest. When she was about 10 years old, she told officers, she had seen her mother’s boyfriend cutting up a body and burying it in the backyard. The woman had waited decades to tell the police because she was afraid of intimidation and reprisals, police said. A day after her call, officers unearthed decaying human remains from a backyard lot in the Richmond Hill section of Queens, exactly where the woman had described. The discovery, in all its lurid detail and historical sweep, was exactly the sort of true-crime mystery that can still captivate the public. Armchair detectives bandied the facts around in online forums, and real investigators dug into a case that appeared to provide precious few leads. For nearly two years, the remains were unidentified, even after the city’s medical examiner put together a DNA profile of the victim. It was not until this February, when the Queens district attorney’s office and the police sought help from an outside laboratory, that investigators were able to locate potential relatives using advanced technology and publicly available genome data from companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com. Seitz was identified not long thereafter. The ensuing investigation — which involved witness interviews and records searches spanning five states — led them to “crucial evidence” that linked Motta to the crime, the Queens district attorney, Melinda Katz, said in a statement. It is unclear how or when Seitz may have made it to the shop, but investigators said he was killed by Motta not long after. His body was dismembered before being buried in pieces in the backyard of 87-72 115th St., where Motta lived at the time. Motta made no statement at this arraignment, according to Daniel A. Saunders, a prosecutor with the Queens district attorney’s office. He was denied bail and is being held at Rikers Island. A lawyer for Motta did not respond to a request for comment. Neighbours on the quiet residential block were stunned by the discovery in 2019, when police investigators and a police dog descended on the 115th Street property. John Guido, who had lived on the street for 40 years, said then that he had observed 13 officers — one in a white evidence suit — combing the backyard, and the dog frantically digging. Guido said then that the home had been a rental property through the 1970s and had attracted “really bad guys.” The property was a blight on the otherwise quaint block, said another neighbour, Bill Corsa, who had also lived there for nearly four decades. Lochan Rampersad, 55, has lived around the corner from the home on 115th Street for nearly 20 years. He had never known Motta, he said this week, but he vividly remembered the chilling day investigators had discovered Seitz’s bones in the very yard where he had once attended neighbourhood barbecues. “It was kind of scary,” he said. Michelle Jones said she owned a salon called “Sistas in Style” that operated in the space where Motta and his brother, Benjamin, ran their barbershop from the 1970s until 1985. She said that four NYPD officers visited her in early 2019, around the time Seitz’s bones were found in the backyard of Motta’s former residence. The detectives asked if she knew the Mottas. Jones told the officers the truth: She did not. But during her time managing the space — 2016 to 2019 — she said that random men also stopped by asking if she knew the Mottas and telling stories about them. “Crazy stuff, that they was into gambling, dogfighting,” she said. “Oh, my God, the stories I heard.”

Bones in the backyard: How police cracked a grisly cold case

<p>The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a federal law that requires only men to register for the military draft.</p>

<p>As is the court’s custom, it gave no reasons for turning down the case. But three justices issued a statement saying that Congress should be allowed more time to consider what they acknowledged was a significant legal issue.</p>

<p>“It remains to be seen, of course, whether Congress will end gender-based registration under the Military Selective Service Act,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the statement, which was joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Brett Kavanaugh. “But at least for now, the court’s long-standing deference to Congress on matters of national defense and military affairs cautions against granting review while Congress actively weighs the issue.”</p>

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<p>The requirement is one of the last sex-based distinctions in federal law, one that challengers say cannot be justified now that women are allowed to serve in every role in the military, including ground combat. Unlike men, though, they are not required to register with the Selective Service System, the government agency that maintains a database of Americans who would be eligible for the draft were it reinstated.</p>

<p>The unequal treatment “imposes selective burdens on men, reinforces the notion that women are not full and equal citizens, and perpetuates stereotypes about men’s and women’s capabilities,” lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union wrote in a petition on behalf of two men who were required to register and the National Coalition for Men.</p>

<p>In 1981, in Rostker v. Goldberg, the Supreme Court rejected a sex-discrimination challenge to the registration requirement, reasoning that it was justified because women could not at that time serve in combat roles.</p>

<p>“Since women are excluded from combat service by statute or military policy,” Justice William Rehnquist wrote for the majority, “men and women are simply not similarly situated for purposes of a draft or registration for a draft.”</p>

<p>On Monday, Sotomayor wrote that “the role of women in the military has changed dramatically since then.”</p>

<p>“Beginning in 1991,” she wrote, “thousands of women have served with distinction in a wide range of combat roles, from operating military aircraft and naval vessels to participating in boots-on-the-ground infantry missions.”</p>

<p>Lower courts had agreed with that assessment.</p>

<p>In 2019, Judge Gray H. Miller of U.S. District Court in Houston ruled that since women can now serve in combat, the men-only registration requirement was no longer justified. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in New Orleans, agreed that “the factual underpinning of the controlling Supreme Court decision has changed.” But it said that only the Supreme Court could overrule its own precedent.</p>

<p>The Trump administration defended the differing registration requirements in the appeals court. The Biden administration urged the Supreme Court not to hear the case, National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System, No. 20-928, but it did not defend the constitutionality of the law. Instead, it asked the justices to give Congress more time to consider the matter.</p>

<p>Last year, a congressional commission concluded that expanding the registration requirement to women was “a necessary — and overdue — step” that “signals that both men and women are valued for their contributions in defending the nation.” That echoed recommendations from military leaders. But Congress, which has long been studying the question, has yet to act.</p>

<p>Men who fail to register can face harsh punishments, including criminal prosecution, denial of student loans and disqualification from citizenship. Eight states do not let men enroll in public universities unless they have registered.</p>

<p>The government has not drafted anyone since the Vietnam War, and there is no reason to think that will change. The challengers said that was a reason for the court to act now, before a crisis arises.</p>

<p>“Should the court declare the men-only registration requirement unconstitutional,” their brief said, “Congress has considerable latitude to decide how to respond. It could require everyone between the ages of 18 and 26, regardless of sex, to register; it could rescind the registration requirement entirely; or it could adopt a new approach altogether, such as replacing” the registration requirement “with a more expansive national service requirement.”</p>

<p>A group of retired military officers, along with the Center for Military Readiness, urged the court to deny review, saying the 1981 precedent was sound.</p>

<p>The brief said that Congress rather than the court should decide who must register. It added that the challengers “also fail to address the elephant in the room: Men, as a group, are stronger, bigger, faster and have greater endurance than women as a group.”</p>

<p>Another group of retired military officers — including Michael V. Hayden, who directed both the CIA and the National Security Agency; Stanley A. McChrystal, a former commander in Afghanistan; and Claudia J. Kennedy, first woman to become a three-star general in the Army — urged the court to hear the case.</p>

<p>“Including women in the Selective Service would double the pool of candidates available to draft,” their brief said, “raising the overall quality of the conscripted force and enabling the nation to better meet its military needs.”</p>


The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a federal law that requires only men to register for the military draft. As is the court’s custom, it gave no reasons for turning down the case.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a federal law that requires only men to register for the military draft. As is the court’s custom, it gave no reasons for turning down the case. But three justices issued a statement saying that Congress should be allowed more time to consider what they acknowledged was a significant legal issue. “It remains to be seen, of course, whether Congress will end gender-based registration under the Military Selective Service Act,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the statement, which was joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Brett Kavanaugh. “But at least for now, the court’s long-standing deference to Congress on matters of national defense and military affairs cautions against granting review while Congress actively weighs the issue.” Also read | Supreme Court rules against immigrants seeking green cards The requirement is one of the last sex-based distinctions in federal law, one that challengers say cannot be justified now that women are allowed to serve in every role in the military, including ground combat. Unlike men, though, they are not required to register with the Selective Service System, the government agency that maintains a database of Americans who would be eligible for the draft were it reinstated. The unequal treatment “imposes selective burdens on men, reinforces the notion that women are not full and equal citizens, and perpetuates stereotypes about men’s and women’s capabilities,” lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union wrote in a petition on behalf of two men who were required to register and the National Coalition for Men. In 1981, in Rostker v. Goldberg, the Supreme Court rejected a sex-discrimination challenge to the registration requirement, reasoning that it was justified because women could not at that time serve in combat roles. “Since women are excluded from combat service by statute or military policy,” Justice William Rehnquist wrote for the majority, “men and women are simply not similarly situated for purposes of a draft or registration for a draft.” On Monday, Sotomayor wrote that “the role of women in the military has changed dramatically since then.” “Beginning in 1991,” she wrote, “thousands of women have served with distinction in a wide range of combat roles, from operating military aircraft and naval vessels to participating in boots-on-the-ground infantry missions.” Lower courts had agreed with that assessment. In 2019, Judge Gray H. Miller of U.S. District Court in Houston ruled that since women can now serve in combat, the men-only registration requirement was no longer justified. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in New Orleans, agreed that “the factual underpinning of the controlling Supreme Court decision has changed.” But it said that only the Supreme Court could overrule its own precedent. The Trump administration defended the differing registration requirements in the appeals court. The Biden administration urged the Supreme Court not to hear the case, National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System, No. 20-928, but it did not defend the constitutionality of the law. Instead, it asked the justices to give Congress more time to consider the matter. Last year, a congressional commission concluded that expanding the registration requirement to women was “a necessary — and overdue — step” that “signals that both men and women are valued for their contributions in defending the nation.” That echoed recommendations from military leaders. But Congress, which has long been studying the question, has yet to act. Men who fail to register can face harsh punishments, including criminal prosecution, denial of student loans and disqualification from citizenship. Eight states do not let men enroll in public universities unless they have registered. The government has not drafted anyone since the Vietnam War, and there is no reason to think that will change. The challengers said that was a reason for the court to act now, before a crisis arises. “Should the court declare the men-only registration requirement unconstitutional,” their brief said, “Congress has considerable latitude to decide how to respond. It could require everyone between the ages of 18 and 26, regardless of sex, to register; it could rescind the registration requirement entirely; or it could adopt a new approach altogether, such as replacing” the registration requirement “with a more expansive national service requirement.” A group of retired military officers, along with the Center for Military Readiness, urged the court to deny review, saying the 1981 precedent was sound. The brief said that Congress rather than the court should decide who must register. It added that the challengers “also fail to address the elephant in the room: Men, as a group, are stronger, bigger, faster and have greater endurance than women as a group.” Another group of retired military officers — including Michael V. Hayden, who directed both the CIA and the National Security Agency; Stanley A. McChrystal, a former commander in Afghanistan; and Claudia J. Kennedy, first woman to become a three-star general in the Army — urged the court to hear the case. “Including women in the Selective Service would double the pool of candidates available to draft,” their brief said, “raising the overall quality of the conscripted force and enabling the nation to better meet its military needs.”

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To Black Americans in the 1960s who were targeted and harassed by the police, 21-year-old Fred Hampton was an empowering figure.</p>

<p>To the FBI and its director, J. Edgar Hoover, Hampton, the chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was a radical threat.</p>

<p>Hampton was killed by Chicago police officers early on the morning of Dec. 4, 1969, during a raid on his West Side apartment, which was a block south of the Black Panther Party’s Chicago headquarters. The ambush, and the months of FBI surveillance of Hampton and the Panthers that preceded it, are dramatized in Shaka King’s film “Judas and the Black Messiah,” which began streaming Friday on HBO Max.</p>

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At the time of Hampton’s death, Chicago was the site of political protests and violent clashes with law enforcement. The infamous trial of the Chicago 7, a court battle that involved seven Vietnam War protesters charged with conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention (a saga chronicled in Aaron Sorkin’s recent film “The Trial of the Chicago 7”), had been underway for a little over two months.</p>

<p>King, who co-wrote the script with Will Berson, drew mostly from fact while taking viewers inside the Black Panther Party in the months leading up to Hampton’s death, though they took a few dramatic liberties. For instance, the film’s star, Daniel Kaluuya, is a decade older than the 21-year-old Hampton was when he was killed.</p>

<p>Here is a guide to the real-life people, groups and events that feature in “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Be warned, there are spoilers, if such a thing is possible when speaking of history.</p>

<p><strong>Who were the Black Panthers?</strong></p>

<p>The Black Panther Party was founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by a pair of Black college students, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, to oppose police brutality and racism in local neighborhoods. The Panthers, who were known for their military-style black berets, leather jackets and raised-fist salute, believed in removing abusive officers from communities by any means necessary, including armed resistance.</p>

<p>The FBI viewed the Panthers as a radical group capable of galvanizing a militant Black nationalist movement. (Hoover, the bureau’s first director, called the Black Panther Party “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country”). But the Panthers also launched a number of social initiatives: Members ran medical clinics, provided free transportation to prisons for family members of inmates, and started a free breakfast program that fed thousands of schoolchildren.</p>

<p><strong>Who was Fred Hampton?</strong></p>

<p>The charismatic community organizer enjoyed a meteoric rise that took him from campaigning for an integrated community pool and recreational center in his hometown, Maywood, Illinois, to preaching to thousands as the chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party.</p>

<p>In 1969, a few months after helping to found the party’s Illinois chapter, the 20-year-old Hampton brokered an alliance he called the Rainbow Coalition, which united the Black Panthers, the Young Patriots (Southern white leftists) and the Young Lords (a Puerto Rican civil and human rights organization) in an effort to combat poverty and racism in their Chicago communities.</p>

<p>Hampton’s rapid ascent through the ranks of the Black Panther Party landed him in the cross hairs of a secret FBI counterintelligence program, known as Cointelpro, that Hoover formed to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize the activities of Black nationalist, hate-type organizations.” Targets included both the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Ku Klux Klan. Hoover declared in an internal memo that he sought to prevent the “rise of a ‘messiah’ who could unify and electrify the militant Black nationalist movement.”</p>

<p>Under Cointelpro, the FBI tried a number of tactics to sow discord within the Black Panther Party at the national and local levels, including sending bogus letters to two of its leaders, Eldridge Cleaver and Huey Newton, which claimed that each sought to depose the other. Authorities also arrested Hampton and several other Panthers in an effort to publicly discredit the group.</p>

<p>In the months before the raid on Hampton’s apartment, the Panthers and the police also faced off in two gunbattles: One in July 1969 at the party’s West Side headquarters in which five police officers and three Panthers were injured, and a South Side fight that November that left two officers and one Panther dead.</p>

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<strong>Who was William O’Neal?</strong></p>

<p>At 17, O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield in the movie) already had a criminal record when the FBI agent Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons) tracked him down after he stole a car in 1966. But O’Neal soon took on a new role: FBI informant. Given the choice between facing felony charges or agreeing to infiltrate the Panthers, he opted for the latter: as a security captain in the Illinois Black Panther Party, he infiltrated Hampton’s inner circle.</p>

<p>In 1969, O’Neal sketched a floor plan of Hampton’s West Side apartment, including where everyone slept, which the FBI then shared with the Chicago Police Department, the agency that conducted the fatal raid. But unlike the character in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” the real O’Neal did not see his actions as a betrayal of Hampton or the Panthers. “I had no allegiance to the Panthers,” he recalled in an interview for the PBS docuseries “Eyes on the Prize,” which chronicled the history of the civil rights movement in the United States.</p>

<p><strong>What happened the morning Fred Hampton was killed?</strong></p>

<p>Fourteen Chicago police officers showed up before dawn on Dec. 4, 1969, at Hampton’s apartment, acting on the orders of Edward V. Hanrahan, the Cook County state’s attorney. Over the course of about 10 minutes, more than 80 shots were fired. When the smoke cleared, Hampton, 21, and another party leader, Mark Clark, 22, were dead, and four other Panthers and two police officers were wounded.</p>

<p>At first, the police claimed they killed Hampton in self-defense after people in the apartment began firing shotguns at them as they tried to execute a search warrant for illegal weapons. But ballistics experts determined that only one of the bullets was probably discharged from a weapon belonging to an occupant of the apartment. A federal grand jury investigation also revealed that the “bullet holes” in the apartment’s front door, which officers had cited as evidence that the Panthers had shot at them, were in fact nail holes created by police.</p>

<p>Though the Chicago Police Department had led the raid, the grand jury concluded that it had been coordinated by the FBI as part of Hoover’s mission to cripple the Black Panther Party — and an FBI memo later revealed that the bureau had authorized a bonus payment to O’Neal.</p>

<p>The first federal grand jury declined to indict anyone involved in the raid, and though a subsequent grand jury indicted Hanrahan and the police officers who participated in the shootings, all the charges were dismissed. In 1982, without admitting any wrongdoing, the federal government, the city of Chicago and Cook County agreed to pay $1.85 million to the families of Hampton and Clark and to survivors of the raid.</p>

<p>Clarence M. Kelley, who succeeded Hoover as head of the FBI in 1973, issued a public apology three years later for the bureau’s abuse of power in the “twilight” of Hoover’s career. “Some of those activities were clearly wrong and quite indefensible,” Kelley said. “We most certainly must never allow them to be repeated.”</p>


To Black Americans in the 1960s who were targeted and harassed by the police, 21-year-old Fred Hampton was an empowering figure. To the FBI and its director, J. Edgar Hoover, Hampton, the chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was a radical threat.

To Black Americans in the 1960s who were targeted and harassed by the police, 21-year-old Fred Hampton was an empowering figure. To the FBI and its director, J. Edgar Hoover, Hampton, the chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was a radical threat. Hampton was killed by Chicago police officers early on the morning of Dec. 4, 1969, during a raid on his West Side apartment, which was a block south of the Black Panther Party’s Chicago headquarters. The ambush, and the months of FBI surveillance of Hampton and the Panthers that preceded it, are dramatized in Shaka King’s film “Judas and the Black Messiah,” which began streaming Friday on HBO Max. At the time of Hampton’s death, Chicago was the site of political protests and violent clashes with law enforcement. The infamous trial of the Chicago 7, a court battle that involved seven Vietnam War protesters charged with conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention (a saga chronicled in Aaron Sorkin’s recent film “The Trial of the Chicago 7”), had been underway for a little over two months. King, who co-wrote the script with Will Berson, drew mostly from fact while taking viewers inside the Black Panther Party in the months leading up to Hampton’s death, though they took a few dramatic liberties. For instance, the film’s star, Daniel Kaluuya, is a decade older than the 21-year-old Hampton was when he was killed. Here is a guide to the real-life people, groups and events that feature in “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Be warned, there are spoilers, if such a thing is possible when speaking of history. Who were the Black Panthers? The Black Panther Party was founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by a pair of Black college students, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, to oppose police brutality and racism in local neighborhoods. The Panthers, who were known for their military-style black berets, leather jackets and raised-fist salute, believed in removing abusive officers from communities by any means necessary, including armed resistance. The FBI viewed the Panthers as a radical group capable of galvanizing a militant Black nationalist movement. (Hoover, the bureau’s first director, called the Black Panther Party “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country”). But the Panthers also launched a number of social initiatives: Members ran medical clinics, provided free transportation to prisons for family members of inmates, and started a free breakfast program that fed thousands of schoolchildren. Who was Fred Hampton? The charismatic community organizer enjoyed a meteoric rise that took him from campaigning for an integrated community pool and recreational center in his hometown, Maywood, Illinois, to preaching to thousands as the chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party. In 1969, a few months after helping to found the party’s Illinois chapter, the 20-year-old Hampton brokered an alliance he called the Rainbow Coalition, which united the Black Panthers, the Young Patriots (Southern white leftists) and the Young Lords (a Puerto Rican civil and human rights organization) in an effort to combat poverty and racism in their Chicago communities. Hampton’s rapid ascent through the ranks of the Black Panther Party landed him in the cross hairs of a secret FBI counterintelligence program, known as Cointelpro, that Hoover formed to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize the activities of Black nationalist, hate-type organizations.” Targets included both the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Ku Klux Klan. Hoover declared in an internal memo that he sought to prevent the “rise of a ‘messiah’ who could unify and electrify the militant Black nationalist movement.” Under Cointelpro, the FBI tried a number of tactics to sow discord within the Black Panther Party at the national and local levels, including sending bogus letters to two of its leaders, Eldridge Cleaver and Huey Newton, which claimed that each sought to depose the other. Authorities also arrested Hampton and several other Panthers in an effort to publicly discredit the group. In the months before the raid on Hampton’s apartment, the Panthers and the police also faced off in two gunbattles: One in July 1969 at the party’s West Side headquarters in which five police officers and three Panthers were injured, and a South Side fight that November that left two officers and one Panther dead. Who was William O’Neal? At 17, O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield in the movie) already had a criminal record when the FBI agent Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons) tracked him down after he stole a car in 1966. But O’Neal soon took on a new role: FBI informant. Given the choice between facing felony charges or agreeing to infiltrate the Panthers, he opted for the latter: as a security captain in the Illinois Black Panther Party, he infiltrated Hampton’s inner circle. In 1969, O’Neal sketched a floor plan of Hampton’s West Side apartment, including where everyone slept, which the FBI then shared with the Chicago Police Department, the agency that conducted the fatal raid. But unlike the character in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” the real O’Neal did not see his actions as a betrayal of Hampton or the Panthers. “I had no allegiance to the Panthers,” he recalled in an interview for the PBS docuseries “Eyes on the Prize,” which chronicled the history of the civil rights movement in the United States. What happened the morning Fred Hampton was killed? Fourteen Chicago police officers showed up before dawn on Dec. 4, 1969, at Hampton’s apartment, acting on the orders of Edward V. Hanrahan, the Cook County state’s attorney. Over the course of about 10 minutes, more than 80 shots were fired. When the smoke cleared, Hampton, 21, and another party leader, Mark Clark, 22, were dead, and four other Panthers and two police officers were wounded. At first, the police claimed they killed Hampton in self-defense after people in the apartment began firing shotguns at them as they tried to execute a search warrant for illegal weapons. But ballistics experts determined that only one of the bullets was probably discharged from a weapon belonging to an occupant of the apartment. A federal grand jury investigation also revealed that the “bullet holes” in the apartment’s front door, which officers had cited as evidence that the Panthers had shot at them, were in fact nail holes created by police. Though the Chicago Police Department had led the raid, the grand jury concluded that it had been coordinated by the FBI as part of Hoover’s mission to cripple the Black Panther Party — and an FBI memo later revealed that the bureau had authorized a bonus payment to O’Neal. The first federal grand jury declined to indict anyone involved in the raid, and though a subsequent grand jury indicted Hanrahan and the police officers who participated in the shootings, all the charges were dismissed. In 1982, without admitting any wrongdoing, the federal government, the city of Chicago and Cook County agreed to pay $1.85 million to the families of Hampton and Clark and to survivors of the raid. Clarence M. Kelley, who succeeded Hoover as head of the FBI in 1973, issued a public apology three years later for the bureau’s abuse of power in the “twilight” of Hoover’s career. “Some of those activities were clearly wrong and quite indefensible,” Kelley said. “We most certainly must never allow them to be repeated.”

'Judas and the Black Messiah': What to know about this much-talked about film

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<p>Actor Kirti Kulhari is all set to play an accused in Hotstar’s second season of Criminal Justice. The crime, courtroom drama will see her in a vulnerable role, something that she enjoyed playing. Speaking to WION about the series and her serious role, she said, “Criminal Justice Season 2 is one of the most challenging roles I’ve played in my career so far. While I’ve done serious roles before, this one required the involvement of a psychiatrist and psychotherapists, because of the condition of the role. While the process was insightful, it was emotionally and mentally challenging.”</p>

<p>Kirti will be seen sharing the screen with Pankaj Tripathi and Jishu Sengupta. Talking about her experience with the seasoned actors, she noted, “It’s always nice to work with actors you can observe and learn from. I love working with actors who don’t have an air around them and are rooted in their craft. Acting is a learning process, and while you learn with everyone in and around the set, the humility of an actor is always the most striking component for me.”<br />
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<p>Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors is in stark contrast with Kirti’s previous role in women-led comedy-drama ‘Four More Shots Please’. The second season of the show received international acclaim and the actor is grateful for the recognition. “Recognition in any form feels extremely nice to any actor, when it is international, it becomes even more special. I’m grateful that people loved the series of four women living their lives, so much.”</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-kirti-kulhari-watches-film-on-big-screen-as-mark-of-support-to-cinema-halls-346780">Kirti was recently in news for visiting a cinema hall when the guidelines around COVID-19 were eased</a> and cinema halls were opened. Speaking about her experience and her motive behind the visit, she shared, “This year has been tumultuous for everyone working in any industry and in the entertainment industry. With the cinema closed down, many livelihoods were challenged. I went to the theatres to support my industry and to tell people that this is the new normal and it’s better to get used to it. We all have to start living in the new world and help those who are a part of this industry, or any industry. It’s important to get back on our feet.”<br />
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<p>On being asked what is the one thing that she’s taking away from this year, Kirti quickly replies, “Minimalism”.</p>

<p>“This year has made people realise that we can survive with minimum stuff and be more conscious. Spending time with my family has been the best part and one positive aspect of the lockdown. The dependence on materialism decreased and the human connections increase, for me, this year. “</p>

<p>Kirti will next be seen in Parineeti Chopra starrer ‘The Girl On The Train’ and third season of ‘Four More Shots Please’.</p>


Actor Kirti Kulhari is all set to play an accused in Hotstar’s second season of Criminal Justice. The crime, courtroom drama will see her in a vulnerable role, something that she enjoyed playing.

Actor Kirti Kulhari is all set to play an accused in Hotstar’s second season of Criminal Justice. The crime, courtroom drama will see her in a vulnerable role, something that she enjoyed playing. Speaking to WION about the series and her serious role, she said, “Criminal Justice Season 2 is one of the most challenging roles I’ve played in my career so far. While I’ve done serious roles before, this one required the involvement of a psychiatrist and psychotherapists, because of the condition of the role. While the process was insightful, it was emotionally and mentally challenging.” Kirti will be seen sharing the screen with Pankaj Tripathi and Jishu Sengupta. Talking about her experience with the seasoned actors, she noted, “It’s always nice to work with actors you can observe and learn from. I love working with actors who don’t have an air around them and are rooted in their craft. Acting is a learning process, and while you learn with everyone in and around the set, the humility of an actor is always the most striking component for me.” Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors is in stark contrast with Kirti’s previous role in women-led comedy-drama ‘Four More Shots Please’. The second season of the show received international acclaim and the actor is grateful for the recognition. “Recognition in any form feels extremely nice to any actor, when it is international, it becomes even more special. I’m grateful that people loved the series of four women living their lives, so much.” Kirti was recently in news for visiting a cinema hall when the guidelines around COVID-19 were eased and cinema halls were opened. Speaking about her experience and her motive behind the visit, she shared, “This year has been tumultuous for everyone working in any industry and in the entertainment industry. With the cinema closed down, many livelihoods were challenged. I went to the theatres to support my industry and to tell people that this is the new normal and it’s better to get used to it. We all have to start living in the new world and help those who are a part of this industry, or any industry. It’s important to get back on our feet.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kirti Kulhari (@iamkirtikulhari) × On being asked what is the one thing that she’s taking away from this year, Kirti quickly replies, “Minimalism”. “This year has made people realise that we can survive with minimum stuff and be more conscious. Spending time with my family has been the best part and one positive aspect of the lockdown. The dependence on materialism decreased and the human connections increase, for me, this year. “ Kirti will next be seen in Parineeti Chopra starrer ‘The Girl On The Train’ and third season of ‘Four More Shots Please’.

'Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Door' has been my most challenging role yet: Kirti Kulhari

<p>A few days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, David Letterman sat behind his desk at CBS’s “Late Show” and shared the story of a rally in Choteau, Montana, to raise money for New York. Getting choked up, he told his viewers, “If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about the spirit of the United States, then I can’t help you.”</p>

<p>Nineteen years later, with the country in the midst of a monthslong pandemic, Letterman found it difficult to conjure up any similarly inspiring anecdotes. One morning last week, this veteran late-night host, broadcaster and comedian, now 73, was sitting in a park here, contemplating the Hudson River and cracking wise about the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge.</p>

<p>“It looks kind of unfinished,” he said through a fabric mask that barely held back his unruly beard. “Doesn’t it look like the new kid got to design it?”</p>

<p>But truth be told, Letterman was in a more melancholy than mirthful frame of mind. Though he, his wife, Regina, and their son, Harry, have remained safe, he knows several people who were stricken by the coronavirus, some of whom died from it. And he is deeply frustrated by what he feels have been inconsistent, nationwide efforts to inform people about the pandemic and mitigate its spread.</p>

<p>While hardly its most devastating casualty, Letterman’s Netflix interview show, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” returns Wednesday but nearly came to a halt. He had recorded two episodes, with Kim Kardashian West and with Robert Downey Jr., before the pandemic, and believed the season — if not the series — was finished.</p>

<p>Instead, he was able to produce two more episodes over the summer, under substantially different circumstances: one with Dave Chappelle, which was recorded at an outdoor pavilion in Yellow Springs, Ohio; and one with Lizzo, at her home studio in Los Angeles, which had no audience at all.</p>

<p>For Letterman, each of these episodes offered him a further education in the evolution of entertainment and deeper insights as an interviewer and observer of human nature. Even so, he found himself yearning for what he called “the carefree days of nonsense” when he could “bring people into a theater and talk to them for an hour, and when we were done I would go out into the crowd and shake hands, and everybody would want to tongue-kiss me.”</p>

<p>“We don’t do that anymore,” he added.</p>

<p>Letterman spoke further about his pandemic experience, the making of his Netflix series and what he hopes the future might hold for him. These are edited excerpts from that conversation.</p>

<p><strong>Q: How has the pandemic been for you? What is it like for you now?</strong></p>

<p>A: Like everybody else, you forget about it. Six, eight months into it, you go on talking as though things are normal, and then it’s, oh, no, we can’t do that because of the pandemic. In the beginning, it was more than ghastly. The husband of a woman that worked at (“Late Show”), he died. A teacher at Harry’s school died. Paul Shaffer and his wife both had it. Cathy, his wife, was hospitalized. Barbara Gaines, who was a producer on the show, she and her wife both had it. And on and on and on.</p>

<p><strong>Q: How do you feel when you come into contact with people elsewhere in the country who don’t seem to be taking the pandemic as seriously?</strong></p>

<p>A: That makes me very sad. Because we learned a lesson that these other people are dismissing. I was talking to a friend of mine, and he was furious at the mayor of his city for keeping it closed, and he said, “Well, that guy will never be reelected.” And I just thought, do I tell him what this really can be? We’re looking at a quarter of a million people dead soon. But I just didn’t want to have that fight.<br />
<br />
<strong>Q: After the 9/11 attacks, you gave several “Late Show” monologues where you tried to rally your viewers’ spirits and bring them together. Do you ever feel like saying anything similar now?</strong></p>

<p>A: Something applicable to these times? I wish I had the wherewithal to say something meaningful. But all of these people who are resisting the idea of prevention, I just keep thinking: What about the families of the 220,000 people who are dead? I wonder how they’re feeling. I don’t get it. I have no solution other than to do what is told: Take care of yourself and your family.</p>

<p><strong>Q: How did the pandemic affect your work on your Netflix series?</strong></p>

<p>A: I thought we were done for good. Really. In the beginning, it really seemed like, holy God, they’re coming over the wall, we’re all going to die. People keep reminding me that, at my age, I’m particularly vulnerable. Which I don’t appreciate at all. “Dad, you know you’re close to 100, you’d better not go out.”</p>

<p><strong>Q: How did you decide to continue with your season?</strong></p>

<p>A: We had two more episodes (with Lizzo and Dave Chappelle) in preproduction, and we were eager to do something. We did them within a very short period of time, and then we came home. By that point, there were protocols in place from the production company and from Netflix that we had to observe, gladly, and we got through it OK.</p>

<p><strong>Q: Kim Kardashian West, who is now a prized guest on your Netflix series, was a frequent target of mockery in your “Late Show” days.</strong></p>

<p>A: Oh, I was at the head of that list. I can remember when she would be booked on the show, it was like, I don’t know anything about her, and I’ve never seen her show. And then when we went to talk to Kanye, I thought, oh, I’ve misjudged this woman.</p>

<p><strong>Q: What changed your mind about her?</strong></p>

<p>A: After we met with Kanye West (for the previous season of the Netflix series), I had a long talk with her at their home, and I started to think about how I had used her as a joke and regarded her as someone not to be taken seriously. I found that that impression was not the end of the story. She had a family. She has her prison reform program. I won’t comment on the ease of being married to Kanye West. And if she can keep a show like that on the air for all those years, that’s an accomplishment. If you can stay in business on television that long, good for you.</p>

<p><strong>Q: You went to Yellow Springs, Ohio, to interview Dave Chappelle. Did you perform at his outdoor comedy show there?</strong></p>

<p>A: Yes. I think I did it. (To his publicist) Did I do it? (Publicist answers: “You did it.”) I’m being told I did it (laughs). It was grand. The setting is unique. It’s outdoors. Everybody’s tested, everybody social distanced. He had three or four comics on and each comic made my heart sink deeper. Because when I was doing comedy, a lot of it was (weakly) “Hey, where you from?” But these men and women, whoa — the level of it, the intellect of it, the presentation of it is so much more than it was when me and my little buddies were, “Hey, how ya doin’, I just got in from Indiana.” Really? No one cares. Get outta here.</p>

<p><strong>Q: Do you ever have moments in these interviews where you feel as if you don’t have a shared frame of reference to talk to some of these guests?</strong></p>

<p>A: Yes. Because the experience is barely parallel. We’re all in show business, but that’s as close a comparison as you can make, culturally. I did feel like, is this going to look stupid? An old guy here, trying to talk to people who are thriving and alive and dominating the world through social media? I felt like it was a wreck. That’s the inner dialogue.</p>

<p><strong>Q: How do you get past this?</strong></p>

<p>A: Like anybody else that you talk to, every human being, there are situations that helped develop into what they are. So you’re going to get a story out of anybody. It may not happen in the first five minutes, but in every one of these experiences, there’s always a conduit for mutual experience. “Oh yeah? You think that’s something? Well, one time I choked on a peanut-butter sandwich and nearly died.” You have to make everybody a good interview.</p>

<p><strong>Q: Do you think that late-night television, a genre that you helped to pioneer, has been diminished in recent years — that so much of it has become political comedy that doesn’t really move the needle and crowds out everything else?</strong></p>

<p>A: I know that people have been hugely successful with it. Stephen (Colbert) has done a great job with my old show — his show now. In my day, the goal was just anything to make the audience laugh. That may be part of the dynamic now. People have this hunger to see the current administration being assailed and embarrassing itself. So I think that’s what (late-night shows) worked toward. I don’t fault them for that. After a while, it wears thin, but the appetite for it has not worn thin. I think they still do enough business to keep people happy.</p>

<p><strong>Q: Do you ever find yourself fearing for the future of this country?</strong></p>

<p>A: I really did, until recently. And now I am confident — or more confident than I’ve been in the last four years — that we’re changing presidents in a couple of weeks. And it will be a huge victory. Not just for our culture and our government, but the simple act of voting will have been the reason that the rest of our country is put back together and, in many ways, saved from what appears to be tyranny, certainly jeopardy. I think it will be a huge victory on many fronts, not the least of which is calling attention to the valuable freedom of voting.</p>

<p><strong>Q: Please don’t mistake this for a suggestion, but do you ever think about packing it in as a broadcaster entirely?</strong></p>

<p>A: First of all, you can’t hurt my feelings because I’m dead inside. But the Netflix people put me back in business in a way that has been, for me, really, really fun. On the other hand, I recognize my own shelf life. I’m way overdue. When it happens, I still will enjoy little things here and there, and that’ll be enough. But there’s other people more capable. I got no problem with that. If there is any kind of schedule, it would be when my son is finished with high school. But if it’s tomorrow, that’s fine.</p>

<p><strong>Q: Your son, Harry, is 16 now. Are you worried about how the pandemic is going to affect his life?</strong></p>

<p>A: I think it’s every parent’s concern, regardless of the age of their kids. But for Harry and his buddies, the junior year of high school is a crucial experience. Now they’re starting to look beyond high school, and it’s not good. For guys Harry’s age and older, it might be a setback. Time takes care of everything, and one hopes that that’s the case here.</p>

<p><strong>Q: How do you talk about these feelings with him?</strong></p>

<p>A: I had a conversation with my son the other night that went this way. Because of the pandemic and the fact that he’s getting older, I said, Harry, your mother and I have two responsibilities. One is to keep you safe. And other than the time that your mother let you roll off the bed and land on your head, we have kept you safe. The other responsibility is your happiness. And he said, “Have you been drinking?” So that’s how that works at my house.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


A few days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, David Letterman sat behind his desk at CBS’s “Late Show” and shared the story of a rally in Choteau, Montana, to raise money for New York.

A few days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, David Letterman sat behind his desk at CBS’s “Late Show” and shared the story of a rally in Choteau, Montana, to raise money for New York. Getting choked up, he told his viewers, “If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about the spirit of the United States, then I can’t help you.” Nineteen years later, with the country in the midst of a monthslong pandemic, Letterman found it difficult to conjure up any similarly inspiring anecdotes. One morning last week, this veteran late-night host, broadcaster and comedian, now 73, was sitting in a park here, contemplating the Hudson River and cracking wise about the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. “It looks kind of unfinished,” he said through a fabric mask that barely held back his unruly beard. “Doesn’t it look like the new kid got to design it?” But truth be told, Letterman was in a more melancholy than mirthful frame of mind. Though he, his wife, Regina, and their son, Harry, have remained safe, he knows several people who were stricken by the coronavirus, some of whom died from it. And he is deeply frustrated by what he feels have been inconsistent, nationwide efforts to inform people about the pandemic and mitigate its spread. While hardly its most devastating casualty, Letterman’s Netflix interview show, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” returns Wednesday but nearly came to a halt. He had recorded two episodes, with Kim Kardashian West and with Robert Downey Jr., before the pandemic, and believed the season — if not the series — was finished. Instead, he was able to produce two more episodes over the summer, under substantially different circumstances: one with Dave Chappelle, which was recorded at an outdoor pavilion in Yellow Springs, Ohio; and one with Lizzo, at her home studio in Los Angeles, which had no audience at all. For Letterman, each of these episodes offered him a further education in the evolution of entertainment and deeper insights as an interviewer and observer of human nature. Even so, he found himself yearning for what he called “the carefree days of nonsense” when he could “bring people into a theater and talk to them for an hour, and when we were done I would go out into the crowd and shake hands, and everybody would want to tongue-kiss me.” “We don’t do that anymore,” he added. Letterman spoke further about his pandemic experience, the making of his Netflix series and what he hopes the future might hold for him. These are edited excerpts from that conversation. Q: How has the pandemic been for you? What is it like for you now? A: Like everybody else, you forget about it. Six, eight months into it, you go on talking as though things are normal, and then it’s, oh, no, we can’t do that because of the pandemic. In the beginning, it was more than ghastly. The husband of a woman that worked at (“Late Show”), he died. A teacher at Harry’s school died. Paul Shaffer and his wife both had it. Cathy, his wife, was hospitalized. Barbara Gaines, who was a producer on the show, she and her wife both had it. And on and on and on. Q: How do you feel when you come into contact with people elsewhere in the country who don’t seem to be taking the pandemic as seriously? A: That makes me very sad. Because we learned a lesson that these other people are dismissing. I was talking to a friend of mine, and he was furious at the mayor of his city for keeping it closed, and he said, “Well, that guy will never be reelected.” And I just thought, do I tell him what this really can be? We’re looking at a quarter of a million people dead soon. But I just didn’t want to have that fight. Q: After the 9/11 attacks, you gave several “Late Show” monologues where you tried to rally your viewers’ spirits and bring them together. Do you ever feel like saying anything similar now? A: Something applicable to these times? I wish I had the wherewithal to say something meaningful. But all of these people who are resisting the idea of prevention, I just keep thinking: What about the families of the 220,000 people who are dead? I wonder how they’re feeling. I don’t get it. I have no solution other than to do what is told: Take care of yourself and your family. Q: How did the pandemic affect your work on your Netflix series? A: I thought we were done for good. Really. In the beginning, it really seemed like, holy God, they’re coming over the wall, we’re all going to die. People keep reminding me that, at my age, I’m particularly vulnerable. Which I don’t appreciate at all. “Dad, you know you’re close to 100, you’d better not go out.” Q: How did you decide to continue with your season? A: We had two more episodes (with Lizzo and Dave Chappelle) in preproduction, and we were eager to do something. We did them within a very short period of time, and then we came home. By that point, there were protocols in place from the production company and from Netflix that we had to observe, gladly, and we got through it OK. Q: Kim Kardashian West, who is now a prized guest on your Netflix series, was a frequent target of mockery in your “Late Show” days. A: Oh, I was at the head of that list. I can remember when she would be booked on the show, it was like, I don’t know anything about her, and I’ve never seen her show. And then when we went to talk to Kanye, I thought, oh, I’ve misjudged this woman. Q: What changed your mind about her? A: After we met with Kanye West (for the previous season of the Netflix series), I had a long talk with her at their home, and I started to think about how I had used her as a joke and regarded her as someone not to be taken seriously. I found that that impression was not the end of the story. She had a family. She has her prison reform program. I won’t comment on the ease of being married to Kanye West. And if she can keep a show like that on the air for all those years, that’s an accomplishment. If you can stay in business on television that long, good for you. Q: You went to Yellow Springs, Ohio, to interview Dave Chappelle. Did you perform at his outdoor comedy show there? A: Yes. I think I did it. (To his publicist) Did I do it? (Publicist answers: “You did it.”) I’m being told I did it (laughs). It was grand. The setting is unique. It’s outdoors. Everybody’s tested, everybody social distanced. He had three or four comics on and each comic made my heart sink deeper. Because when I was doing comedy, a lot of it was (weakly) “Hey, where you from?” But these men and women, whoa — the level of it, the intellect of it, the presentation of it is so much more than it was when me and my little buddies were, “Hey, how ya doin’, I just got in from Indiana.” Really? No one cares. Get outta here. Q: Do you ever have moments in these interviews where you feel as if you don’t have a shared frame of reference to talk to some of these guests? A: Yes. Because the experience is barely parallel. We’re all in show business, but that’s as close a comparison as you can make, culturally. I did feel like, is this going to look stupid? An old guy here, trying to talk to people who are thriving and alive and dominating the world through social media? I felt like it was a wreck. That’s the inner dialogue. Q: How do you get past this? A: Like anybody else that you talk to, every human being, there are situations that helped develop into what they are. So you’re going to get a story out of anybody. It may not happen in the first five minutes, but in every one of these experiences, there’s always a conduit for mutual experience. “Oh yeah? You think that’s something? Well, one time I choked on a peanut-butter sandwich and nearly died.” You have to make everybody a good interview. Q: Do you think that late-night television, a genre that you helped to pioneer, has been diminished in recent years — that so much of it has become political comedy that doesn’t really move the needle and crowds out everything else? A: I know that people have been hugely successful with it. Stephen (Colbert) has done a great job with my old show — his show now. In my day, the goal was just anything to make the audience laugh. That may be part of the dynamic now. People have this hunger to see the current administration being assailed and embarrassing itself. So I think that’s what (late-night shows) worked toward. I don’t fault them for that. After a while, it wears thin, but the appetite for it has not worn thin. I think they still do enough business to keep people happy. Q: Do you ever find yourself fearing for the future of this country? A: I really did, until recently. And now I am confident — or more confident than I’ve been in the last four years — that we’re changing presidents in a couple of weeks. And it will be a huge victory. Not just for our culture and our government, but the simple act of voting will have been the reason that the rest of our country is put back together and, in many ways, saved from what appears to be tyranny, certainly jeopardy. I think it will be a huge victory on many fronts, not the least of which is calling attention to the valuable freedom of voting. Q: Please don’t mistake this for a suggestion, but do you ever think about packing it in as a broadcaster entirely? A: First of all, you can’t hurt my feelings because I’m dead inside. But the Netflix people put me back in business in a way that has been, for me, really, really fun. On the other hand, I recognize my own shelf life. I’m way overdue. When it happens, I still will enjoy little things here and there, and that’ll be enough. But there’s other people more capable. I got no problem with that. If there is any kind of schedule, it would be when my son is finished with high school. But if it’s tomorrow, that’s fine. Q: Your son, Harry, is 16 now. Are you worried about how the pandemic is going to affect his life? A: I think it’s every parent’s concern, regardless of the age of their kids. But for Harry and his buddies, the junior year of high school is a crucial experience. Now they’re starting to look beyond high school, and it’s not good. For guys Harry’s age and older, it might be a setback. Time takes care of everything, and one hopes that that’s the case here. Q: How do you talk about these feelings with him? A: I had a conversation with my son the other night that went this way. Because of the pandemic and the fact that he’s getting older, I said, Harry, your mother and I have two responsibilities. One is to keep you safe. And other than the time that your mother let you roll off the bed and land on your head, we have kept you safe. The other responsibility is your happiness. And he said, “Have you been drinking?” So that’s how that works at my house.

David Letterman isn’t here to cheer you up this time

<p>Three former jail employees in Oklahoma are facing criminal charges after they forced inmates to listen repeatedly to “Baby Shark,” the wildly popular song beloved by children and despised by parents around the globe, according to court records.</p>

<p>Christian Miles and Gregory Butler, both 21 and former Oklahoma County Jail detention officers, as well as their former supervisor, Christopher Hendershott, 50, were charged on Monday with cruelty to prisoners, corporal punishment to an inmate and conspiracy, Oklahoma County District Court records show.</p>

<p>On at least five occasions in November and December involving five inmates, each separately, Miles and Butler placed the inmate into an empty attorney visitation room, according to affidavits. The two then handcuffed the inmate against the wall, forcing him to stand for as long as two hours, an internal investigation preceding the charges found.</p>

<p>“Baby Shark” was played on repeat, through a computer, while the inmate was forced to listen to it.</p>

<p>The song was “said to be a joke between Miles and Butler,” Miles told investigators.</p>

<p>David Prater, the Oklahoma County district attorney, said the three had acted “conjointly, willfully and wrongfully” in a “cruel or inhuman manner” when they subjected inmates to the punishment.</p>

<p>Playing the song on repeat put “undue emotional stress on the inmates who were most likely already suffering” from being handcuffed to the wall, Prater wrote.</p>

<p>And if listening to the song through a tinny computer speaker while being handcuffed to a wall wasn’t bad enough, at least two inmates had their sleep disrupted. According to court records, one of the inmates was pulled into the room shortly after 3 a.m., while another was subjected to the punishment shortly after 2 a.m.</p>

<p>Hendershott “failed to properly supervise and discipline” Butler and Miles, the district attorney said. Butler and Miles were “the subject of numerous inmate complaints that detailed their history of mistreatment,” Prater wrote.</p>

<p>Though the three charges are misdemeanors, Prater told The Oklahoman newspaper that he “would have preferred filing a felony on this behavior.”</p>

<p>“It was unfortunate that I could not find a felony statute to fit this fact scenario,” he said.</p>

<p>It was unclear on Tuesday night who was representing the three defendants. Butler and Miles resigned during the internal investigation, and Hendershott retired, the county sheriff, P.D. Taylor, told the paper.</p>

<p>Efforts to reach Taylor on Tuesday evening were unsuccessful.</p>

<p>The song “Baby Shark,” which opens with the gripping lyric “Baby shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,” has captivated the attention of hordes of children, including the daughter of former Washington Nationals outfielder Gerardo Parra. The song rang from the speakers at the team’s stadium throughout the 2019 season.</p>

<p>But, in addition to the episodes in Oklahoma, the tune has found more sinister uses. Last year, the city of West Palm Beach, Florida, blared “Baby Shark” to deter homeless people from sleeping outside an event center.</p>


Three former jail employees in Oklahoma are facing criminal charges after they forced inmates to listen repeatedly to “Baby Shark,” the wildly popular song beloved by children and despised by parents around the globe, according to court records.

Three former jail employees in Oklahoma are facing criminal charges after they forced inmates to listen repeatedly to “Baby Shark,” the wildly popular song beloved by children and despised by parents around the globe, according to court records. Christian Miles and Gregory Butler, both 21 and former Oklahoma County Jail detention officers, as well as their former supervisor, Christopher Hendershott, 50, were charged on Monday with cruelty to prisoners, corporal punishment to an inmate and conspiracy, Oklahoma County District Court records show. On at least five occasions in November and December involving five inmates, each separately, Miles and Butler placed the inmate into an empty attorney visitation room, according to affidavits. The two then handcuffed the inmate against the wall, forcing him to stand for as long as two hours, an internal investigation preceding the charges found. “Baby Shark” was played on repeat, through a computer, while the inmate was forced to listen to it. The song was “said to be a joke between Miles and Butler,” Miles told investigators. David Prater, the Oklahoma County district attorney, said the three had acted “conjointly, willfully and wrongfully” in a “cruel or inhuman manner” when they subjected inmates to the punishment. Playing the song on repeat put “undue emotional stress on the inmates who were most likely already suffering” from being handcuffed to the wall, Prater wrote. And if listening to the song through a tinny computer speaker while being handcuffed to a wall wasn’t bad enough, at least two inmates had their sleep disrupted. According to court records, one of the inmates was pulled into the room shortly after 3 a.m., while another was subjected to the punishment shortly after 2 a.m. Hendershott “failed to properly supervise and discipline” Butler and Miles, the district attorney said. Butler and Miles were “the subject of numerous inmate complaints that detailed their history of mistreatment,” Prater wrote. Though the three charges are misdemeanors, Prater told The Oklahoman newspaper that he “would have preferred filing a felony on this behavior.” “It was unfortunate that I could not find a felony statute to fit this fact scenario,” he said. It was unclear on Tuesday night who was representing the three defendants. Butler and Miles resigned during the internal investigation, and Hendershott retired, the county sheriff, P.D. Taylor, told the paper. Efforts to reach Taylor on Tuesday evening were unsuccessful. The song “Baby Shark,” which opens with the gripping lyric “Baby shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,” has captivated the attention of hordes of children, including the daughter of former Washington Nationals outfielder Gerardo Parra. The song rang from the speakers at the team’s stadium throughout the 2019 season. But, in addition to the episodes in Oklahoma, the tune has found more sinister uses. Last year, the city of West Palm Beach, Florida, blared “Baby Shark” to deter homeless people from sleeping outside an event center.

Jail employees face charges after using ‘baby shark’ song to punish inmates

<p>It's the age of web series. Actor Jackie Shroff is the latest from Bollywood to have made his plunge into the digital medium. Shroff stars in a Hotstar web series called 'Criminal Justice' which is all set to stream from 5th April onwards. The show also co-stars Vikrant Massey, Pankaj Tripathi and Mita Vashisht.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The show captures Aditya Sharma`s (essayed by Vikrant ) journey after one incident completely turns around his life. It is produced by BBC Studios India.</p>

<p>Aditya Birla Group`s Applause Entertainment has worked on the official Indian version of the British television drama series 'Criminal Justice'. It has also been adapted for the US as 'The Night Of'&nbsp;and stars John Turturro and Riz Ahmed.</p>

<p>The trailer was released on Thursday and showcases a gripping drama with Massey playing the main protagonist.&nbsp;</p>

<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KPyNH7mZkGc" width="560"></iframe></p>

<p>"The intensity of the character required great preparation and research. From the nuances of Indian prisons to the life of criminals locked inside, every little detail was important. &nbsp;There were days when it got me emotionally drained, but that`s what all powerful stories do," Massey said to a news agency.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Directed by &nbsp;Vishal Furia and Tigmanshu Dhulia, the series will be available in seven languages -- Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.&nbsp;</p>


It's the age of web series. Actor Jackie Shroff is the latest from Bollywood to have made his plunge into the digital medium. Shroff stars in a Hotstar web series called 'Criminal Justice' which is all set to stream from 5th April onwards.

It's the age of web series. Actor Jackie Shroff is the latest from Bollywood to have made his plunge into the digital medium. Shroff stars in a Hotstar web series called 'Criminal Justice' which is all set to stream from 5th April onwards. The show also co-stars Vikrant Massey, Pankaj Tripathi and Mita Vashisht. The show captures Aditya Sharma`s (essayed by Vikrant ) journey after one incident completely turns around his life. It is produced by BBC Studios India. Aditya Birla Group`s Applause Entertainment has worked on the official Indian version of the British television drama series 'Criminal Justice'. It has also been adapted for the US as 'The Night Of' and stars John Turturro and Riz Ahmed. The trailer was released on Thursday and showcases a gripping drama with Massey playing the main protagonist. "The intensity of the character required great preparation and research. From the nuances of Indian prisons to the life of criminals locked inside, every little detail was important. There were days when it got me emotionally drained, but that`s what all powerful stories do," Massey said to a news agency. Directed by Vishal Furia and Tigmanshu Dhulia, the series will be available in seven languages -- Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

Jackie Shroff makes his digital debut in 'Criminal Justice' co-starring Vikrant Massey, Pankaj Tripathi

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