The Uttar Pradesh Police has filed an FIR against news portal ''The Wire'', its two journalists and two others over a documentary on the demolition of a mosque here which, the administration said, was built illegally.

The case has been registered against journalists Siraj Ali and Mukul S Chauhan, and two others -- Mohammad Anees and Mohammad Naeem -- who gave "provocative" statements in the documentary that spread "prejudiced, misleading and untrue" information, police said on Friday.