During the recent India–Pakistan tensions under the label “Operation Sindoor,” several mainstream Indian TV news channels deliberately misled the public by broadcasting fake visuals, recycled foreign war footage, and completely unverified military claims.
This is not incompetence. This is manufactured propaganda.
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has filed formal complaints after exposing how these channels knowingly passed off old Israeli and Gaza war footage as Indian military action, invented terror links, and used fear-mongering “breaking news” to whip up public hysteria.
Below is the list of some false and misleading incidents documented in the CJP complaint:
1) Old Israeli Iron Dome footage sold as Indian air defence action
A 4-year-old Israeli video was falsely shown as India intercepting Pakistani attacks.
Gaza war footage aired as Indian strikes on Pakistan Foreign conflict visuals were deliberately passed off as live Indian military operations.
Fake missile strike claims
Unverified clips were broadcast claiming Indian missiles destroyed terror camps with zero evidence.
3)Manufactured terror links
An Indian school teacher killed in cross-border shelling was shamefully identified as a Pakistani terrorist.
4)Manufactured terror links
Civilians were repeatedly labelled as terrorists without proof.
5) Civilian falsely branded a Pakistani terrorist
An Indian school teacher killed in cross-border shelling was shamefully identified as a Pakistani terrorist.
6) Invented “breaking news” war scenarios
Channels exaggerated or outright fabricated major war developments that never occurred.
7. No verification, no accountability
Stories were aired without fact-checking, with corrections only after public outrage.
Channels named in the complaint:
Aaj Tak, ABP News, Times Now Navbharat,
NDTV, India TV, News18
Here is the full read
Amid heightened India-Pakistan tensions last week, a situation that brought two nuclear power nations to the brink of war, shrill and misleading television and electronic media telecasts made a critical situation worse, even leading the government of India through the Ministry of Information and...
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