Which Ketan Parekh?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 04/03/2014

The dates and scams are different, and the faces and middle names of the of the two Ketan Parekhs are different. Even so, while the Times of India explained the confusion, Mumbai Mirror, DNA and the Hindustan Times went ahead merrily and carried majorly mixed up reports on the latest Ketan Parekh to be convicted in a financial scam. HT even carried a picture of the wrong man.

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