Comments "I can't put into words how the case affected me mentally. The memory still haunts me. Each day, I contemplated going to the railway tracks to end my life."Pawan Kumar, accused of spreading fake news in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district On 21 August 2019, Pawan Kumar, a freelance journalist in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur town, while checking updates on his local journalists' WhatsApp group, received a document running to three pages. On downloading it, he realised it was a copy of an FIR that mentioned his name multiple times. Overnight, Kumar was accused of a criminal offence that he ...