A police complaint has been filed with the Delhi Police as well as the Maharashtra Police against the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) for “defaming a particular religion and spreading communal tension by misreporting on the Delhi riots and the killing of IB staffer Ankit Sharma,” Hindu Post has reported.

“Police complaints filed against The Wall Street Journal with @DelhiPolice & Maharashtra Police for ‘defaming particular religion & spreading communal tension’ with respect to alleged misreporting on #DelhiViolence & murder of IB official Ankit Sharma,” national broadcaster Prasar Bharti said in a tweet.

According to WSJ report : “Mr Sharma was returning home when a group of rioters started throwing stones and charged into the street near where his house is located, his brother said.”

The WSJ wrote as quoting Ankit’s brother, “They came armed with stones, rods, knives and even swords; they shouted ‘Jai Shri Ram’…”

But as per Prasar Bharti Ankit’s brother had never given any such statement to Wall Street Journal.

In conversation with Prasar Bharati, he discredited WSJ report, saying: “I never gave such a statement to the Wall Street Journal. This is a ploy to defame my brother and my family. The Wall Street Journal is lying.”

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