Jammu, June 29 -- A local court of sub judge/special mobile magistrate in Poonch headed by judge Shafeeq Ahmed has directed the SHO of police station, Poonch to register a formal FIR under Sections 353(2), 356 and 196(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) with Section 66 of the Information Technology Act against two national news channels for their defamatory and false reporting during Operation Sindoor. The court has further directed the police to undertake a fair, impartial and time-bound investigation into the matter. These directions of wide public importance were issued in an application filed by a renowned advocate of Poonch Sheikh Mohd Saleem seeking registration of FIR against certain news anchors and editorial personnel of two national news for allegedly committing cognizable offences under BNS. Saleem contended that on May 7 one Qari Mohd Iqbal a cleric and a social activist at Jamia Zia-ul-Uloom, Poonch and resident of Qazi Mohra, Poonch, were killed along with other civilians during intense cross-border shelling by Pakistan in the Poonch sector. However, the two news channels without verification branded the deceased cleric as a "Pakistani terrorist" affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba thereby defaming the deceased causing distress to his family and also damaged the reputation of the deceased as well as hurt the religious sentiments of the community....