Hyderabad, June 29 -- A local court in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Saturday, June 28, directed police to file an FIR against national news channels Zee News and News18 India for allegedly defaming a civilian teacher by wrongly identifying him as a "Pakistani terrorist" during their coverage of Operation Sindoor, the military's recent response to the Pahalgam terror attack.

The directive was issued by Sub-Judge and Special Mobile Magistrate Shafeeq Ahmed in response to a complaint by Advocate Sheikh Mohammad Saleem.

Victim misidentified during live broadcasts

The complaint states that the deceased, Qari Mohammad Iqbal, a religious teacher at Jamia Zia-ul-Uloom in Poonch, was killed in Pakistani shelling on May 7. However, dur...