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Crime & justice fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about crime & justice. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

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FACTLYCrime & justice

In UP’s Deoria, rape convict Muhammad Gaffar was killed immediately after his release on bail

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns an alleged killing in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh: a social-media post said that Muhammad (also spelled Mohammad) Gaffar, described in the post as convicted of raping a Hindu girl, was killed immediately after leaving jail on bail. FACTLY’s review addresses that specific post and reports that the alleged incident did not happen in Deoria. The review describes several checks. It says searches found no reports of the alleged incident, including in local newspapers. It also recounts that Aaj Tak contacted Deoria police and local journalists. According to the review, both said the reported killing had not taken place in Deoria; the police described the news as false and the local journalists said no such incident had been reported there. FACTLY additionally says it sought clarification from Deoria police’s social media cell, which denied that the incident had happened. The evidence described is therefore a lack of any corroborating report combined with denials from local police and journalists. The excerpt does not provide independent documentation about Gaffar, a court case, a bail release, or a killing; it supports the conclusion that the specific viral report of the Deoria incident was fabricated.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Video shows Doctor Islam Mohammad raping an unconscious pregnant woman in the operation theatre.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video said to show Doctor Islam Mohammad raping an unconscious pregnant woman in an operating theatre. FACTLY’s review says the incident shown is real, but disputes the identification of the accused. It identifies him as Giovanni Quintella Bezerra, a Brazilian anaesthetist, rather than Islam Mohammad. On that basis, the review rates the claim false: the video is being attributed to the wrong person. The review describes how it checked the identification: screenshots from the video were searched using Google Reverse Image Search. FACTLY reports that this returned articles with similar visuals, including one identifying the person in the video as Bezerra and describing him as accused of raping a woman during a C-section. The review also points to other news-agency reports that identify Bezerra as the accused. The distinction is therefore between the reported assault and the name attached to the person shown. FACTLY does not say the incident did not happen; it says the person accused in this video is Bezerra, not Islam Mohammad. The evidence described in the excerpt supports that correction through matching visuals and reporting that identifies Bezerra, though the excerpt does not provide the linked articles’ full details or independently establish further circumstances of the incident.

YouturnCrime & justice

பீகார் மாநில தொழிலாளர் பவன் யாதவ் என்பவர் தமிழ்நாட்டில் கொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளார். ஆனால், தமிழ்நாடு காவல்துறை அவர்களது மாநிலத்தில் வடமாநில தொழிலாளர்கள் மீது தாக்குதல் சம்பவங்கள் எதுவும் நடக்கவில்லை எனப் பொய்யான தகவலைக் கூறுகின்றனர்.

Publisher’s rating: Fakev