For Report On Man Taken To Hospital On Cart, Police Action On 3 Journalists In Madhya Pradesh

While FIR says their report is "false and baseless" on several counts, the family in the video says their suffering was real, and the story is correct

Days after they video-reported how a family had to carry an elderly man to the hospital on a handcart in Madhya Pradesh, three local journalists have been booked on charges of cheating, promoting enmity among classes, and under the IT Act.

While the FIR says their report is "false and baseless" on several counts, the family in the video says their suffering was real, and the story is correct.

The case against Kunjbihari Kourav, Anil Sharma and NK Bhatele has been registered after a probe team of the revenue and health departments, formed by Bhind District Collector Sathish Kumar S, said the family hadn't made any call for an ambulance. It said the family had taken the elderly man, Gyan Prasad Vishwakarma, to a private hospital first, and not to a government hospital as reported.

But the man's son Harikrishna and daughter Pushpa said they had to use the cart, pushing it for 5 km, after not getting an ambulance despite a phone call.