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FIRs against Mumbai tabloid, Marathi news channel for hurting religious sentiments
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Mumbai, Maharashtra

Two separate FIRs were lodged on Thursday against a newspaper and its reporter and an editor of a Marathi news channel for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of the minority community.

Mumbai Mirror, a daily from the Times of India group, had carried a report "˜Teen attacked after parents refuse to give him up for ISIS"™ , which claimed that"Mumbra police had booked six men, including four identified as maulvis, for allegedly beating up a 16-year-old boy and trashing his father"™s car in an attempt to make him enlist to fight for ISIS."

Sources said, the case/complaint by teenager"™s mother was not related to ISIS but about rioting.