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ছবিতে যেই আসামিকে দেখতে পাচ্ছেন, তার অপরাধ হচ্ছে, তিনি তার ৩ বছর বয়সি মেয়ের ধর্ষককে হত্যা করেন। কিন্তু হত্যা করার পূর্বে তিনি ধর্ষককে গাছের সাথে বেঁধে তার পুরুষাঙ্গ কেটে সেটিকে রান্না করে সেই ধর্ষককে জোর করে খায়িয়েছিলেন

Publisher’s rating: False

FACTLYCrime & justice

The London Court confirmed Rahul Gandhi as one of the bank guarantors of PNB scam accused Nirav Modi

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns an alleged statement by a London court that Rahul Gandhi was a bank guarantor for Nirav Modi, who was accused in the Punjab National Bank scam. The review identifies the court proceeding at issue as the Westminster Magistrates’ Court’s 25 February 2021 judgment allowing Modi’s extradition from the UK to India. It says the judgment did not identify Gandhi as a guarantor or link him to the PNB case. To check whether the court had made the alleged observations, the review reports searching for news coverage and finding no reports of such a statement. It also examines what the judgment said about people who supported Modi: Gandhi’s name was not included among the listed conspirators, according to the review. These findings address the specific court and allegation in the claim, rather than merely whether Gandhi and Modi had any prior connection. The review also describes a separate political allegation from 2019: the BJP said Gandhi had visited a Nirav Modi jewellery exhibition in Delhi before Allahabad Bank approved a loan to Gitanjali Gems. An interview with former Allahabad Bank director Dinesh Dubey concerned a proposed loan to that company and his opposition to it. The review says Dubey did not allege Gandhi’s direct involvement in the loan approval. That separate dispute does not establish that a court named Gandhi as a guarantor.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Video showing Hindutva radicalised cops beating an elderly Muslim man

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review examined a social-media video presented as showing Hindutva-radicalised police beating an elderly Muslim man. It concluded that the footage was from April 2020, during COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, rather than a recent incident. Its account says police were dispersing a crowd gathered in violation of those restrictions; it also reports that the crowd attacked officers, who were injured, and that several people were booked by Bareilly police for allegedly attacking them. To trace the footage, the investigators say they reverse-image-searched screenshots and found the same video in a Twitter post. Bareilly Police replied to that post, identifying the video as footage from the 2020 lockdown and saying officers used force to disperse an unlawful gathering. The review also reports finding a video with similar visuals uploaded by Odisha news channel OTV on 7 April 2020. These findings place the footage in a lockdown-era crowd-control incident, not the recent anti-Muslim assault described in the claim. The review’s account does not describe the video as showing an elderly Muslim man being beaten. Instead, it says police were dispersing a crowd that had violated lockdown guidelines, and notes that the crowd attacked officers. It further reports that the OTV report connected the incident to people violating lockdown rules and ransacking a police station in Uttar Pradesh, while making no mention of a communal motive.