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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

A rare picture of Mahatma Gandhi’s murder by Nathuram Godse.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a photograph shared as a rare image of Mahatma Gandhi’s murder by Nathuram Godse. FACTLY reports that it examined the image accompanying that specific claim and identified it instead as a still from the film *Nine Hours to Rama* (1963). The review describes the film as being about Godse’s plan to kill Gandhi and a police officer’s effort to find the killer. (S1: “A post with a photo is being widely shared on Facebook with the claim that it is a rare picture of Mahatma Gandhi’s murder by Nathuram Godse.”; “The image is from a still of the movie ‘Nine Hours to Rama (1963)’.”; “The movie is about Nathuram Godse’s plan to kill Mahatma Gandhi and the task of a police officer, Gopal Das, to find the killer before it’s too late.”) The review says it used a reverse-image search, which returned an IMDb page for the film; it then found the image in the film’s photo gallery. It also reports comparing the circulated image with a frame in a YouTube copy of the film: the frame at 1:55:32 was similar to the viral photograph. These checks support the finding that the image was movie material rather than a photograph documenting the murder. (S1: “When the image is subjected to reverse image search technique, a link of ‘Internet Movie Database’ (IMDb) was obtained in the search results.”; “The image was found in the photo gallery of that movie.”; “a still in it, at 1:55:32, is similar to that of the viral photograph.”) The evidence described is specifically an image-to-film match. The excerpt does not provide further details about the original image’s creation or circulation beyond its being shared on Facebook, so those details cannot be established from this account. (S1: “A post with a photo is being widely shared on Facebook”; “To conclude, a still from a movie is falsely shared as ‘Rare picture of Mahatma Gandhi’s murder by Nathuram Godse’.”)

FACTLYCrime & justice

Arvind Kejriwal is accused of raping a girl and was detained by the Police

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a circulating news-style clip that identified a 19-year-old IIT Kharagpur student named Arvind Kejriwal as accused of raping a local girl and detained by police for questioning. FACTLY reports that it searched for information about the alleged incident and found no information that Arvind Kejriwal had been arrested for rape while studying at IIT Kharagpur. It also says that searches for the news described in the clip found no information from a credible source. [S1: “No information was found about Arvind Kejriwal being arrested for raping a girl during his study at IIT Kharagpur. The news clip in the post is ‘digitally’ created.”; “When searched about the news referred to in the clip, information from no credible source was found.”] The review’s central evidence is that the clip was fabricated, rather than a genuine report of an arrest or accusation. FACTLY compared the clip’s third column with a sample from Fodey, a website that lets users create a newspaper-style clip using a chosen headline and story. The review says those columns matched and that FACTLY recreated the posted image using the site. [S1: “The third column in the news clip and that in the ‘sample’ of fodey.com website is the same. Using that website, one can create a news clip with the desired headline and the story of interest. FACTLY has tried to recreate the posted image on the ‘fodey.com’ website.”]

NewtralCrime & justice

Audio que asegura que una “banda de rumanos” está robando vehículos en rotondas de Granada

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerned a WhatsApp audio circulating in Granada. It alleged that Romanian people staged vehicle breakdowns at roundabouts, then threatened drivers with a shotgun and stole their cars. The audio also claimed that this had happened four times. Newtral’s review examined that specific audio and allegation, rather than a different robbery report or a general warning about crime. The review reports two checks with local authorities. Granada Local Police publicly described the circulating message as a hoax in a Twitter post dated January 21, 2020. Newtral also contacted the Local Police press office; its spokesperson said there had been no reports of this kind of robbery and no organized gang robbing vehicles with firearms at the city’s roundabouts. The review further reports that the Guardia Civil in Granada had received no reports or calls about the case. Taken together, the cited police statement and the responses from both forces do not support the audio’s account of repeated armed carjackings or an organized gang operating at Granada roundabouts. The excerpt does not provide independent incident records or identify who created the audio, so those details cannot be established from the supplied text.