The prevalent trend of fake news hit a new low when the online edition of a news channel announced actor Adhyayan Suman’s ‘suicide’.
Acting swiftly the channel’s online section where this monstrous misinformation appeared has sent Shekhar Suman an apology and requested him to retract his tweets condemning the channel’s irresponsible report on his son.
However, Shekhar Suman is in no mood to relent. Reacting to the apology he says to me, “We are not relenting at all. The damage caused by them cannot be compensated for by a mere apology. We are going all the way as far as possibly legally. We want this case to be an example for all those who put out highly damaging and defamatory news just for hits and TRPs. We want that they should think of how deeply damaging irresponsible reportage can be.”
For those who've come in late, in a case of criminal carelessness and unforgivable callousness, a news channel (Zee News) on February 20 declared Shekhar Suman’s actor-son Adhyayan had committed suicide when in fact the “suicide victim” is hale and hearty.
The actor's father had spoken to us earlier as well and told us this is the worst form of click-baiting callousness. “When my wife Alka and I heard this we were numbed. Adhyayan was in Delhi and his phone was out of reach. We died a thousand deaths until we reached him. Just announcing to the world that my son has committed suicide…it’s absolutely unpardonable. You can imagine what my wife and I went through," Shekhar had said.
Image source: Instagram/adhyayansuman
Image source: Instagram/adhyayansuman