Mumbai: Fans of Shah Rukh Khan took to social media platform on Thursday to demand an apology from ABP News for spreading fake news about the actor.
On Thursday, reports by ABP claimed that Shah Rukh Khan, Ranbir Kapoor and Arjun Rampal have been summoned by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the drug nexus case.
However, later in the day, NCB officials rubbished the reports and denied issuing summons to the actors.
The fake report by ABP irked SRK fans, who took to Twitter and started trending ‘ABP News Apologize To SRK’. Some of them have even lodged a complaint with NBA, Delhi against the news channel.
Here’s how netizens reacted:
https://twitter.com/iStormbreaker_/status/1311598721159761921?s=20
https://twitter.com/RaziqueSrk0/status/1311599601481379842?s=20
40k tweets breached on
ABP NEWS APOLOGIZE TO SRK
There better be a public apology for involving actors in the drug controversy for TRP purposes pic.twitter.com/TmGmAhA0dl
— BRIJWA SRK FAN 👑 (@BrijwaSRKman) October 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/iam_wajahat555/status/1311602280567717889?s=20
Disgusting news channel @ABPNews stop spreading fake news against the country's greatest superstar.
ABP NEWS APOLOGIZE TO SRK pic.twitter.com/yxoH1qpp2e
— Gulsan ᴰᵁᴺᴷᴵ (@OhMyGuls) October 1, 2020