The Caravan's Editor-in-chief Vinod K Jose had spread lies about the persecution of minorities in India at the Global Conference For Media Freedom in London.
The PTI report was picked up and shared by various media houses where the story with a misleading headline with misattribute to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
The debate on CNN News18 soon deviated from the main issue of political violence in West Bengal into a war of words between the anchor and Garga Chatterjee over the issue of whether CNN News18 was a Hindi or an English channel.