The BBC World Service started broadcasts in Arabic in 1938. That is basically the dawn of modern international propaganda. The media has likely been a hotbed of lies for much longer but our main record of the situation is the media so the evidence is scanty.

With that background, the story here is that the network has been identified and catalogued. Someone somewhere in India is grossly negligent and/or stupid if there isn't an organised group pushing pro-India stories and the general existence of such a thing isn't newsworthy.