Hyderabad, Dec. 8 -- The News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) reprimanded multiple mainstream TV news channels for converting a fictional Class 3 NCERT story into a communal 'love jihad' narrative, and immediately directed them to take down the broadcasts.

The news channels that aired the story were India TV, News 18 Madhya Pradesh/Chhattisgarh, Zee Madhya Pradesh/Chhattisgarh, Zee News, and ABP News.

The order pertains to a letter written by a girl named Reena to Ahmed in a children's environmental studies lesson titled, "Chitti Aayi Hai" (A letter has arrived). Using a communal angle on the letter, the mentioned TV channels insinuated that the letter written in the school textbook was an instance of "love jihad."

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