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4 journalists in Uttar Pradesh booked over alleged “fake news”

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Police registered a case in Bhadohi district of Uttar Pradesh against four journalists and two others on the charges of spreading “fake news” about an incident in which a woman hurled her five children into a river. The journalist had reported that the woman had not been able to find food food because of the COVID-19 related lockdown in the state.

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