Lovlina hoardings: Case against Assam portal after DIPR alleges fake news

POLICE HAVE registered a case against a Guwahati-based news portal after the Directorate of Information and Public Relations (DIPR), Assam alleged that the website had aired “fake news” – related to hoardings that featured Olympian boxer Lovlina Borgohain – to “malign the the image of the Minister of Information and Public Relations, Pijush Hazarika and the department in public eye”.

In a complaint to Dispur Police Station in Guwahati on Friday, the director of DIPR requested that “appropriate legal action against the web portal” be taken under law for “dissemination of completely false and fabricated information designed to malign the images of innocent persons”.