{"id":342104,"date":"2023-02-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=342104"},"modified":"2023-02-23T04:57:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T10:27:55","slug":"rss-lodges-fir-for-misleading-news-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rss-lodges-fir-for-misleading-news-items\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>RSS lodges FIR for &#8216;misleading news items&#8217;<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"647\" height=\"404\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/RSS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/RSS.jpg 647w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/RSS-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucknow: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Awadh Prant Prachar Pramukh, Ashok Kumar Dubey, has filed an FIR under IPC 153 A (promoting enmity between groups) and other relevant charges against the executive director of a prominent newspaper and reporters of several news publications and channels for their report about a new RSS headquarter coming up over 100 acres of land in Ayodhya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FIR was filed at the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his complaint, Dubey alleged that the accused persons deliberately maligned the image of RSS by publishing a report on February 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This report was also circulated by a news channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dubey said that it is a &#8220;mischievously designed fictitious news based on unsubstantiated and imaginative facts&#8221; and issued a denial on behalf of RSS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has also added in the FIR that the fake news reports have misled readers into wrongly believing that the RSS has lost its path of &#8220;Param Vaibhav&#8221; and is now working on the line to &#8220;acquire immovable property of 100 acre land at Ayodhya, in collusion with the state government&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas the fact is that the RSS already has its office, Saket Nilayam, at Ayodhya for the last many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dubey alleged that it appears that as part of a motivated plot, despite being cognizant of the full facts, the media reports were &#8220;aimed at harming the goodwill and reputation of RSS by publishing fake news&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant Commissioner of Police, Hazratganj, Arvind Kumar Verma, said that an FIR against the accused news organisations&#8217; reporters and an executive director has been lodged under the charges of IPC 153 A (promoting enmity between groups), IPC 505 (statements conducing to mischief) and section 66 of the IT Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our probe is on and statements will be taken from the accused soon, &#8221; he said. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Awadh Prant Prachar Pramukh, Ashok Kumar Dubey, has filed an FIR under IPC 153 A (promoting enmity between groups) and other relevant charges against the executive director of a prominent newspaper and reporters of several news publications and channels for their report about a new RSS headquarter coming up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":342105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342107,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342104\/revisions\/342107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/342105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}