Hindustan Times had published an article dated May 27, 2020, titled: "Migrants’ kid dies as father hunts for milk at railway station", claiming that a four-and-a-half-year-old son of migrants from Bihar based in Delhi died of hunger at the railway station on arrival by a ‘Shramik Special’ train.
The Hindustan Times in an interview insinuated that spitting was not as much of a significant issue as people would like to believe, probably to shield Tablighi Jamaat amidst Coronavirus outbreak