Devendran Palanichamy is a journalist with the Tamil news channel News 7. Not only does he resort to spreading fake when news, he will not take it down or make changes to it even if the errors are pointed out.
On July 17, he had put out a tweet saying that a bridge in Bihar built over 8 years at a cost of ₹263 crores collapsed within a month of opening.
He added saying that they might have as well have just shown in record that it was built instead of actually building it.
பீஹாரில் 263 கோடி ரூபாய் செலவில் 8 ஆண்டுகளாக கட்டப்பட்ட பாலம் ஒன்று திறக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு மாதத்திற்குள் இடிந்து விழுந்திருக்கிறது…
இதுக்கு கட்டினதா கணக்கும் மட்டும் காட்டியிருந்துருக்கலாம்… 😓
— Devendran Palanichamy (@devpromoth) July 16, 2020
However, the viral video of the incident of bridge collapse has been called out by Bihar’s Road Transport Minister Nand Kishore Yadav as false.
नेता प्रतिपक्ष #सत्तर_घाट_पुल के क्षतिग्रस्त होने की झूठी खबर फैला रहे हैं।
इस मामले में सही तथ्य निम्नवत है।
सत्तर घाट मुख्य पुल से लगभग दो किमी दूर गोपालगंज की ओर एक 18 मी लम्बाई के छोटे पुल का पहुँच पथ कट गया है। यह छोटा पुल गंडक नदी के बांध के अन्दर अवस्थित है। @ANI pic.twitter.com/GwUe5RS6iK
— Nand Kishore Yadav (@nkishoreyadav) July 16, 2020
In his tweet the Minister clarified that an old 18 meter small bridge 2 km away from the newly built bridge had been washed away by the rains and no damage had been done to the new bridge built at a cost of ₹ 263 crore.
Despite this clarification the News 7 journalist has not taken it down his tweet or clarified the same.