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The claim

A Muslim man dismembered the body of a woman named Mahalakshmi in Bengaluru and kept it in a fridge.

Original publisher’s rating

MISLEADING

Reviewed by FACTLY ↗ ·

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Original review summary

The review says the claim falsely links Mahalakshmi’s murder to a Muslim man: police found that Ashraf was not involved and identified Mukti Ranjan Roy as the primary suspect. It reports that Roy’s suicide note confessed to the murder.[S1]

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  1. [S1] FACTLY original review

    Original review · Retrieved October 16, 2026

Original review: FACTLY. Structured data compiled by Data Commons under CC BY 4.0. Publisher article content is subject to its own terms. Summaries and context are produced by PeakMetrics with AI assistance.

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