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Crime & justice fact checks

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

6,849 published reviews in this topic

Fact CrescendoCrime & justice

जोधपुर में अतिक्रमण हटाने के लिये एक पुलिस कांस्टेबल रास्ते पर खड़े ठेलों को हटा रहा था। तभी कुछ मुस्लिम समुदाय के लोगों ने उन्हें घेर लिया और बदतमीजी की। उस पुलिसकर्मी का नाम शोभाराम है।

Publisher’s rating: False

FACTLYCrime & justice

Photo of Muslim man assaulting a police officer

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post presented a photo as showing a Muslim man assaulting a police officer recently. FACTLY traced the image to a different setting: a 2016 incident in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, involving a street hawker and a traffic head constable. The review says the altercation followed the officer discarding handcarts that had been illegally placed near the streets. Thus, the photo was not evidence of the recent event or the person’s religious identity alleged in the post. To check the image’s history, the review says a reverse-image search found the same photo in a newspaper article, and that the image had been shared on social media since 2020. It then reports finding several 2016 news accounts through keyword searches. According to the review’s account of Dainik Bhaskar, the hawker was Premchand Mali, from Nagoria Bera, and the constable was Shobharam; the incident took place near Ghantaghar in Jodhpur. The review also says the assaulted constable, who had become an Assistant Sub-Inspector in Jodhpur Police, confirmed to BOOM that the hawker was not Muslim. These details identify the photo as documenting an older local dispute, rather than the recent communal incident described in the post.

Vera FilesCrime & justice

Walang hurisdiksyon ang International Criminal Court sa mga sinasabing krimen laban sa sangkatauhan na nauugnay sa giyera kontra droga ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte.

Publisher’s rating: Hindi totoo

Related reporting published on April 22, 2026, concerns the same jurisdictional dispute: Rodrigo Duterte appealed an earlier ICC decision rejecting his challenge to the court’s authority over the case. GMA reports that the Appeals Chamber rejected all four grounds of appeal and confirmed the earlier decision. That directly contradicts the claim that the ICC has no jurisdiction in the case.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Video of a Muslim man brutally assaulting Hindu women in Mirzapur

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video said to show a Muslim man named Abdul assaulting Hindu women with iron rods in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, after a dispute about garbage. FACTLY reports that the video does show an assault, but the asserted religious identities are wrong: its review concludes that both the accused and the victims belonged to the Muslim community. The incident took place in January 2022 in the Kotwali Katra area, and the communal framing was added when the footage was shared. To trace the footage, FACTLY says it reverse-searched screenshots from the video and found local news reports published in January 2022 showing the same footage. Those reports described youngsters assaulting women with iron rods after a minor dispute over garbage; they did not identify the victims as Hindu. When the video later circulated with a communal claim, the Mirzapur Official media channel sought clarification from police. Additional SP Sanjay Kumar said the incident occurred on 16 January 2022 and that the accused and victims were Muslim. He identified Salman as the prime accused and described the dispute as involving garbage thrown in front of a neighbourhood family. The review also cites a police clarification video and an FIR copy found through the UPCOP mobile application. FACTLY says the FIR named Nasreen Begum as complainant and listed Salman and others as accused. Taken together, the reported footage history, police clarification and FIR details support the conclusion that the video depicts a dispute between two Muslim families—not the claimed attack by a Muslim man on Hindu women.