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Vishvas NewsCrime & justice

A viral news card with picture of stolen two wheelers states the Police arrested three BJP party members for stealing 10 bikes worth Rs 15 lakh

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The viral card claimed that police arrested three BJP members for stealing 10 bikes worth ₹15 lakh. Vishvas News says the card had been edited: its investigation found the original News7 card on the channel’s official Facebook page, posted on 3 October 2020, and reported that it did not identify the suspects as BJP members. The review also cites a Hindu article describing the Nungambakkam police arrest of three people over alleged bike thefts. It names the suspects as A. Mohammed Shafi, D. Sibi and Ameerjan, and says 10 bikes estimated at ₹15 lakh were recovered. Vishvas News reports that a News7 web-team representative, Niruban, confirmed someone had edited the card and called the viral post fake. Thus the bike count and estimated value appear in the account of the underlying case, but the BJP affiliation in the viral card was not in the original card and was rejected by the channel’s web team.

FACTLYCrime & justice

A Muslim man attacked a Hindu girl with a machete in broad day light for turning down his love proposal in Hubli, Karnataka

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post claimed that a Muslim man attacked a Hindu girl with a machete in broad daylight in Hubli, Karnataka, because she had rejected his proposal. FACTLY examined that specific incident and reports that the attack took place in Deshpande Nagar, Hubbali. The article identifies the accused as Ismail and the victim as Asha, and says Asha’s mother, Bibijan, made the police complaint. [S1: “the name of the accused is Ismail and the name of the victim is Asha and both of them belong to the same community (Muslim). Asha’s mother Bibijan made the complaint with the police.”] To check the claim about the victim’s religion, FACTLY says it reviewed the FIR registered for the incident and contacted Hubbali Sub-urban police station SI Hoyelannavar. The article reports that the FIR identified both the accused and victim as Muslim, and that the officer confirmed they belonged to the same community. That evidence addresses the post’s central communal framing: the victim was not identified as Hindu in the material the review describes. [S1: “According to the FIR registered regarding the incident, the name of the accused is Ismail and the name of the victim is Asha and both of them belong to the same community (Muslim).”] [S1: “Further, when FACTLY contacted Hubbali Sub-urban police station SI Hoyelannavar, he confirmed that both the victim and the accused belong to the same community (Muslim).”] The article also says that a news report described the incident as an attack on a woman believed to be the assailant’s lover. But the evidence presented by FACTLY for the religious identities comes from its account of the FIR and its contact with the police officer; the excerpt does not provide the FIR itself or a direct quotation from the officer. [S1: “According to one such news article, a man attacked a woman who is believed to be his lover with a machete in broad daylight in Hubbali’s Deshpande Nagar.”]

Vishvas NewsCrime & justice

பெண் ஒருவர் கொடூரமாக கொல்லப்படும் காணொலி இந்தியாவில் எடுக்கப்பட்டது என்ற கூற்றுடன் சமூக ஊடகங்களில் வைரலாகி வருகிறது. 31 வினாடிகள் நீளமூள்ள இந்த காணொலியில், முகமூடி அணிந்த ஒருவரால், பெண் ஒருவர் தலையில் தாக்கப்படுகிறார். மேலும் அந்தப் பெண்ணின் கைகளும், வாயும் கட்டப்பட்டு இருப்பதையும் நம்மால் காண முடிகிறது. இந்த காணொலியின் தன்மை காரணமாக நாங்கள் இந்த காணொலியை காட்ட வேண்டாம் என்று முடிவுசெய்து, இதன் ஸ்கிரீன் ஷாட்களை மழுங்கடித்துள்ளோம்.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLYCrime & justice

Delhi police personnel shot a Muslim lady

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY examined a social-media video showing a woman being hit during a confrontation with a police officer. Its review identifies the specific claim as “Delhi police personnel shot a Muslim lady” and says the incident occurred during a parking dispute in Rohini, Delhi. The reported event date was 25 November 2020. The review’s account differs from the claim’s description of a shooting directed at a Muslim woman. It says a constable was manhandled by people involved in the dispute and fired four rounds at the ground in self-defence; one round deflected and hit a woman in her foot. It also reports that an FIR was registered against the group for obstructing the officer and that, according to the FIR, none of those involved was Muslim. FACTLY says it found news reports about the incident through a Google search using relevant keywords, and compared those reports with the FIR. It reports that the news accounts described the parking dispute and the woman’s foot injury, while the FIR characterized the firing as self-defence. The review therefore treats the video as footage of an accidental injury during the dispute, not evidence that police shot a Muslim woman on account of her religion.

Vishvas NewsCrime & justice

ఇది భారతదేశం అని పిలవబడే మనదేశం. ఇది మహిళల స్వేచ్ఛనా? ఇలాగే, ఉత్తర ప్రదేశ్‌లో ఆడకూతుళ్లు చంపబడుతున్నారు!'

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post paired a video of a partly burned woman’s body with a caption claiming that women were being killed in Uttar Pradesh. The review investigated the video’s location, rather than disputing that the footage showed a woman’s body. It reports that its investigation identified the incident as having happened in Karnataka, not Uttar Pradesh. To trace the footage, the reviewers uploaded it to InVID, extracted keyframes, and searched those frames using Google reverse image search. They found a Kannada-language news report about a young woman set on fire in Periyapatna, Mysore district, and noted that the report contained screenshots from the viral video. They also found reporting about a body discovered by the roadside in Kellur village, within Periyapatna police limits. The review says that police superintendent C. B. Rishyanth confirmed the incident occurred in Karnataka and that the body was found in Kellur village; he also said two people had been detained in the case. Taken together, the video match, location-specific reporting, and police confirmation support the review’s conclusion that the post misidentified the incident’s location. The supplied excerpt does not establish the victim’s identity or the full circumstances of her death.