The News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has issued orders against mainstream news media channels, Zee News and Times Now Navbharat, for their recent coverage of conspiracy theories like ‘ mehendi jihad ‘ and ‘ love jihad ‘, calling it blatant Islamophobic.

The order stated the news channels violated the Code of Ethics for broadcasting. It was passed based on a last year’s complaint filed by media researcher and journalist Indrajeet Ghorpade, who charged the mainstream channels of spreading communal hate against the Muslim community in India.

Zee News reporting on ‘mehendi jihad’

Zee News had aired a series of reports alleging that young Muslim men posing as henna artists spat on mehendi applied to Hindu women and also held a motive for forced religious conversion

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