Alerts | Arrest/detention under fake news laws

Three journalists booked for “fake news” on coronavirus

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Police in the southern Indian state of Telangana booked three journalists in two separate cases of spreading ‘fake news’. In one case, the two journalists had published a story stating that a person who distributed food to poor families had tested positive for Covid-19, which the police said was not correct. In the second case, another journalist reported that senior district officials were being tested for COVID-19, which has also been denied by the administration.

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