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Mumbai, June 16: Twitterati have turned against news channel Times Now and its editor Arnab Goswami, blaming Goswami of fabricating news and faking evidence in the Sushma Swaraj-Lalit Modi visa controversy. The hashtag #traitortimesnow has been trending on the microblogging site Twitter. Read: Sushma Swaraj target of ‘political game’, claims Shiv Sena; Demands Prime Minister to investigate Also Read - 'Abrogation of Article 370 India's Internal Matter, Other Nations Have no Business,' Says Venkaiah Naidu

The tweets accuse the channel of showing double standards while dealing with this issue. The tweets express a range of emotions from anger and indignation to mockery on the incessant and accusatory nature of the coverage on the popular English news channel. The trend has seen many tweets demanding that the channel stop cheating and misleading innocent and gullible Indian audience and shows both sides of the story. Also Read - 'Forever in Our Hearts': Twitter Fondly Remembers Sushma Swaraj on Her First Death Anniversary

#TraitorTimesNow Snake who get paid to show fake news and defame Government deserve only one place. RT if you agree.. pic.twitter.com/T0kYZSODTL — Gayatri Reddy (@Gayatritwit) June 16, 2015

Yes I worship Pappu #RaGa & I follow Italian Mem coz without them my journolism is just plain lame. #TraitorTimesNow pic.twitter.com/1cmrQtdEDu — Dheeraj Jaiswal (@DheerajGbc) June 16, 2015

This group will sell India for a price. Most treacherous of the #Presstitutes #TraitorTimesNow .For God's sake quit India. — Bala (@balasubra9) June 16, 2015

.@TimesNow : Journalism for new India WRONG Its “Prostitution of Journalism in New India for TRP” #TraitorTimesNow

— #GauravPradhan (@DrGPradhan) June 16, 2015



#TraitorTimesNow When the so called fourth pillar of democracy “media” goes against its own ethos than it produces an evil like @TimesNow

— TruthSeeker (@RITURATHAUR) June 16, 2015

The controversy erupted when the UK based newspaper Sunday Times reported that Sushma Swaraj had last year urged the UK government to facilitate travel documents for Lalit Modi. The infamous ex-IPL chief was under investigation of the Enforcement Directorate for alleged betting and misappropriation of funds in the IPL tournament.