Police in Bhind have registered a case of forgery against three journalists over news of a family taking an elderly man to hospital on a handcart in the absence of an ambulance.

They filed an FIR on August 18 on a complaint of health department’s Medical Officer Rajiv Kaurav, Daboh police station’s head constable Kamlesh Kumar said on Monday. Journalists Kunjbihari Kaurav, Anil Sharma and N K Bhatele have also been booked under IPC Section 505 (public mischief), he said.