The Bengal police on Tuesday flagged a tweet by
India Today executive editor Deep Halder about post-poll violence in the state as âfake newsâ. Halder had tweeted that BJPâs women poll agents were âgangrapedâ and âmanyâ were molested in Birbhum district, attributing the allegation to the Bengal BJP.
Following this, the editor tweeted that he had confirmed with the police superintendent that reports of gangrape were fake, and deleted his fake news tweet.
EC-appointed Birbhum district SP Nagendra Tripathi has said reports of gangr@pe in Birbhum are fake. So I am deleting my tweet where I had quoted Bengal BJP's allegation of the r@pe of two party workers.— Deep Halder (@deepscribble) May 4, 2021