Better late than never

IN Media Watch Briefs | 20/05/2017

Here is a delicious little piece of investigation by the Hindustan Times. When other newspapers reporter that the octogenarian former Haryana CM Om Prakash Chautala, convicted in a teacher recruitment scam, had passed the class 12 board exam while lodged in Tihar Jail, HT did a fact check. The story originated from Chautala's son but officials  checked with said that he had appeared for the class 10 exam, not 12, and the results are not out yet!