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.
A video came to light earlier where Anjana Om Kashyap, a senior journalist from the India Today group was seen heckling and questioning a doctor inside the ICU over the outbreak of Encephalitis in Bihar
The so-called 'fact-check' was shared on Twitter by Rahul Kanwal, who is the Director of India Today and Aaj Tak and in his bio, calls himself a 'fake news slayer'.