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Crime & justice fact checks

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

6,854 published reviews in this topic

FACTLYCrime & justice

Police started a service for women safety with a helpline number 9969777888 for tracking the vehicle in which they are travelling through GPRS.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim was that police had introduced 9969777888 as a women’s-safety service: a woman could text the registration number of an auto or cab before travelling and receive confirmation that the vehicle was linked to GPRS and her journey would be monitored. The review says the message circulated as a Telangana Police service and was also associated in another version with Bengaluru City Police. Its investigation found the number instead belonged to a Mumbai Police service, not a newly introduced Telangana or Bengaluru service. [S1]

FACTLYCrime & justice

In India the number of reported rape cases increased from 1638 in 2013 to 3051 in 2018.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post under review claimed that reported rape cases across India rose from 1,638 in 2013 to 3,051 in 2018. FACTLY says the post did not name a state and therefore treated its geographic scope as the whole country. The review checks the claim against National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reporting, the source it identifies for figures on rape cases reported in India. The decisive correction is the 2013 comparison: FACTLY reports that the NCRB’s “Crime in India – 2013” recorded 33,707 reported rape cases, not 1,638. The review also explains that the available NCRB reporting did not establish the claimed 2018 figure: it says data had been released only through 2017 and identifies the 2017 report as the latest one available at the time. Thus, the claim’s 2013 number conflicts with the cited national report, while its 2018 number cannot be verified from the NCRB data described in the review.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Narsinghanand Saraswati said all the accused in the Hyderabad Rape are Muslims. The Police admit changing their names because three of them were minors.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a social-media post attributing two assertions to Narsinghanand Saraswati: that all the accused in the Hyderabad Veterinary Rape-Murder case were Muslims, and that police changed the names of three accused because they were minors. FACTLY says it checked videos on Saraswati’s YouTube channel and found that he made the all-Muslim claim in both; in a more recent video, he also alleged that police had fabricated the names of three accused and presented them as Hindus.

The QuintCrime & justice

Dalit man insulted in Pune

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a photo of a youth wearing a garland made of shoes. The accompanying post said the boy was from an oppressed caste, had been punished for speaking about Dr. B. R. Ambedkar at school prayer, and later died by suicide; it placed the incident in Pune. The Quint’s review found that the photo did not show that event: it said the incident took place in Bangladesh in 2017, not Pune, and that the boy was punished for harassing a girl. The review describes a reverse image search that led to a 2017 report by PNSNews24.com. It then checked further reporting, including Bangladesh Pratidin, which identified the boy as Mostafa, a student of Sagardighi School and College, and described his punishment after locals caught him harassing a student from Bashabaid High School in Tangail District. The review reports that the school’s head teacher said more than 100 students, guardians, and locals were present. This evidence links the image to a different country, time, and circumstance, rather than the alleged Pune incident.