India, July 3 -- A news TV anchor has landed in trouble with the police over a false claim of "nar bali (human sacrifice)" at the Kamakhya temple in Assam, during a live conversation with a cousin of Indore businessman Raja Raghuvanshi, who was murdered allegedly by his wife and her lover during their honeymoon in Meghalaya earlier this year.

The Guwahati Police Crime Branch summoned the news anchor along with Shrishti Raghuvanshi, a female cousin of Raja Raghuvanshi, over the alleged defamatory statement about the revered Hindu shrine, news agency ANI reported. The anchor and the channel were not named in the agency report.

After the FIR was filed on charges of hurting religious sentiments, both the anchor and Raja Raghuvanshi's cousin...