Bengaluru police book Sudhir Chaudhary, Aaj Tak for ‘fake news’

Police in central Bengaluru have booked Hindi journalist Sudhir Chaudhary and news channel Aaj Tak for spreading “fake news” about a Karnataka government scheme for members of religious minority communities.

The FIR lodged by Seshadripuram police late on Tuesday night invoked IPC sections 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) and 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc, and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony).

The complainant is Shivakumar S, Assistant Administrative Officer at the Karnataka Minorities Development Corporation (KMDC), a state government agency under the Minority Welfare Department.