Earlier in the day, freelance protestor-turned-politician Shehla Rashid, who has an illustrious career of peddling fake news, Shehla Rashid in a series of tweets had attempted to incite people by sharing false claims of torture and excessive force being used against Kashmiris.
Meanwhile, India Today journalist Abhishek Bhalla who wrote the story has brazened it out and said that his sources were 'credible' and not based on rumours.