{"id":999637,"date":"2026-03-27T08:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999637"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:37:07","slug":"whatsapp-notice-no-ground-for-arrest-rajasthan-hc-holds-asp-guilty-of-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/whatsapp-notice-no-ground-for-arrest-rajasthan-hc-holds-asp-guilty-of-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;WhatsApp notice no ground for arrest&#8217;: Rajasthan HC holds ASP guilty of contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAIPUR: A notice served solely through WhatsApp cannot be the basis for arrest, the Rajasthan High Court has ruled. In a case where an accused was arrested via a WhatsApp notice, the court has held IPS officer and then Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Pushpendra Singh Rathore, guilty of contempt of court. <\/p>\n<p>The Court has directed him to appear in person on April 6 for a hearing on the quantum of sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAIPUR: A notice served solely through WhatsApp cannot be the basis for arrest, the Rajasthan High Court has ruled. In a case where an accused was arrested via a WhatsApp notice, the court has held IPS officer and then Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Pushpendra Singh Rathore, guilty of contempt of court. The Court has directed him to appear in person on April 6 for a hearing on the quantum of sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}