Lucknow: A committee of the Uttar Pradesh assembly has indicted a Hindi news channel for running a tampered video in the name of a sting operation in which senior minister Azam Khan was accused of abetting riots in Muzaffarnagar in 2013. The findings were to be tabled in the House on Wednesday , but the matter was postponed at the last moment. The committee had sent the tapes of the al leged sting operation to a forensic lab, which confirmed that the footage was tampered with and the voiceovers were fake.

The police personnel on duty in the riotaffected districts also denied naming Azam anywhere during their conversations as reported by the channel.