Prime-time anchor Rajdeep Sardesai has been yanked off-air for two weeks by his employers India Today after he tweeted that Punjab farm protester Navneet Singh had been “killed allegedly in police firing” during the Republic Day tractor rally and that farmers had told him “the ‘sacrifice’ will not go in vain.” Sardesai also repeated his statement on-air. The news anchor, though, retracted his statements on Twitter and on-air after the police released a video showing Singh losing control of the tractor and the vehicle overturning near New Delhi’s ITO crossing. A post-mortem confirmed that Navneet Singh had not been shot. On Tuesday afternoon, a group of protesters had refused to allow Singh’s body to be moved. They insisted to journalists that he had been shot though they refused to show the body to the reporters.