Published on : 05 Dec 2025, 10:02 am 4 min read

The News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has reprimanded several news channels for turning a fictional account in a class 3 NCERT into a communal “ love jihad ” narrative [Indrajeet Ghorpade & Utkarsh Mishra v. India TV & Ors.].

The broadcasts in question were aired by India TV, News18 Madhya Pradesh/Chhattisgarh, Zee Madhya Pradesh/Chhattisgarh, Zee News and ABP News.

The NBDSA said that the coverage by the five news channels violated standards of objective and factual reporting directed them to remove eight broadcasts that linked a fictional Class 3 National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbook letter to the conspiracy theory of “ love jihad, ” a claim that Muslim men deliberately

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