Pulling up Dainik Bhaskar for “fake news” about attacks on Bihari migrant workers in Tamil Nadu, the Madras High Court has ordered the Hindi daily to issue an unconditional apology before the court and the people of Tamil Nadu, and also publish a corrigendum on the first page of its publications, according to LiveLaw.
The move comes nearly four months after Dainik Bhaskar posted a video on March 2 on Twitter stating that the “Taliban in Tamil Nadu punishing Bihari labourers for speaking in Hindi”. Last week, the paper’s editor Prasoon Mishra had filed an anticipatory bail plea in the court, stating that the publication had “no intention” to spread panic or enmity between two groups on the grounds of language or residence. He was granted anticipatory bail.
