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“The Quint” which had supported Pakistan by lying that former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav was a raw agent, is once again caught spreading distorted information just to defend a particular political ideology.

Recently a video went viral on social media that showed how a forest officer was brutally man handled by the goons in Andhra Pradesh. This video was also tweeted by Mahesh Vikram Hegde and it had garnered 8,200 retweets on twitter.

In the videos a bunch of men are seen assualting a man in uniform and at the end of the video the man in uniform is forced to touch the feet of one of the goon.

This is the punishment for a Police Sub inspector in Kurnool, Andhra for checking the car of the son of a Congress MLC.

He was made to touch the feet of the Congress Goonda in full uniform .

Pathetic! Aren't you ashamed of yourself?

Mr @RahulGandhipic.twitter.com/5ztQd0TXfS — Mahesh Vikram Hegde (@mvmeet) August 21, 2018

Now kindly pay your attention. The video was tweeted by Mr Hegde on August 21 and the same video was tweeted by K. T. Rama Rao on August 17th, exactly 4 days prior to Mr Hegde. For those who don’t know who is K. T. Rama Rao, he is the son of K. Chandrashekar Rao, the chief minister of Telangana.

He is the Minister for Industry and Commerce, Municipal Administration and Urban Development, ITE and C, Mines, Handlooms and Textiles, NRI Affairs in the Government of Telangana.

Mr K. T. Rama Rao had tweeted the video with the following caption:

1) The incident took place in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh & allegedly the assaulter was a son of former MLC of Congress party

2) Irrespective of who it is, I am confident that Telangana police will be happy to assist AP police when they ask

Two things; 1) The incident took place in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh & allegedly the assaulter was a son of former MLC of Congress party 2) Irrespective of who it is, I am confident that Telangana police will be happy to assist AP police when they ask https://t.co/O2ax2Udt8w — KTR (@KTRTRS) August 16, 2018

Mr KTR had clearly stated that one of the assaulter was allegedly a son of the former Congress MLC. After his tweet, many considered it as a source and spread it on social media platforms. Later on the reports said that all the assaulters were arrested.

But the bottom line of the article is how The Quint totally distorted the issue with clear intentions to defame Mr Hegde. The article had a subtitle that read “Neither is the man a cop, nor are the attacking goons associated with a Congress MLC”.

In the tweet, Mr Hegde had claimed that the police was a sub-inspector but he was actually a “forest department official”. The second thing Mr Hegde claimed that the assaulter was a son of Congress MLC. Even Mr KTR had said the same.

But The Quint who is being regularly exposed by Postcard Media for its anti-national activities decided to target Mr Hegde claiming that he is spreading fake news. What kind of journalism these follow.

In the whole article they have mentioned nowhere that it was Mr KTR who said that one of the assualter was son of former Congress MLC. It also seems like The Quint is not shocked at the assault at the officer but is in a hurry to attack the nationalists.

Even the Bangalore Mirror had claimed that the assaulter was a relative of a former MLC. Here is the statement of Bangalore Mirror:

The youths, who included a close relative of a former Member of Legislative Council (MLC), faced the ire of people from across the country for their unruly behaviour.

They made the officer touch the feet of the MLC’s relative to be forgiven and freed from their custody.

Bangalore Mirror had published the article on August 17th and its still on their website: You can read it: Andhra Pradesh: Court sends six youths accused of attacking forest officer to jail

The purpose of Mr Hegde’s tweet was to create awareness that the goons were assaulting the officer who was in uniform, that too when camera’s where around them. But The Quint totally distorted the issue. Nowhere in the article The Quint seems to be angry with the act of the bunch of goondas.

Nowhere in the article The Quint has stated that the information put up by Telangana CM’s son is not accurate. But all it want to portray is that the nationalists in a bad light, just for spreading the truth.

Even in the past a soldier had committed suicide due to the ethic-less journalism of The Quint. This propaganda website had to delete several of its articles that were filled with misinformation.

To conclude, let me ask The Quint “What is fake news”?

Truth said by nationalists are labeled as fake news and lies of anti-nationals are given prime time slot and praised.

Hansika Raj