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The man seen in the video is an accused in Asifa murder case.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a video circulated as showing Mohammed Elias, an accused in the Asifa murder case in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir. FACTLY reports that it traced the same video to a News Nation article, which described a man in police custody accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh. The review notes that details visible in the footage complicate that account: the police vehicle’s number plate indicated Madhya Pradesh, and a background sign referred to an outpost in Hanumanganj, Madhya Pradesh. Those clues do not establish which other case the footage depicts, and FACTLY leaves that possibility open. But the review says the video is not connected to the Kathua case. It also reports that Kathua case lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat told BOOM the video was fake. On the evidence described, the footage does not substantiate the claim that the man shown was an accused in the Asifa case.
పోస్ట్ లో ఉన్న వీడియో అసిఫా హత్య కేసు నిందితుడికి సంబంధించినది
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
South African prisoners get a monthly salary and bonus when done serving time
Publisher’s rating: False
In Gujarat, an MLA Anil Upadhyay and his followers attacked a Dalit young man for purchasing a car and driving it on roads.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a video presented as showing Gujarat MLA Anil Upadhyay and his supporters assaulting a Dalit young man because he bought and drove a car. FACTLY says the video instead shows a family dispute in Gujarat: “The video posted is the one related to a clash between the members of a family in Gujarat.” To investigate, FACTLY searched YouTube using the keywords “Man beaten on the road in Gujarat” and found the same video in a Telugu news bulletin by V6. FACTLY reports that the bulletin located the incident in Gandhinagar and described the man being beaten as a son-in-law, with his uncle and other relatives as the attackers, in a dowry-related dispute. It also says the attackers later struck and damaged the man’s car. Thus, the review identifies the footage as a family clash, not an attack by an MLA on a Dalit man over driving a car.
Claim viral video of IT raid at UP ministers house
Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating FALSE
Claim: Bihar lady Police officer shot rapists
Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating: False
Claim: Arms seized from MP BJP leader house
Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating: True
Fact Crescendo investigated a Facebook video posted on April 3, 2019, which showed a woman police officer speaking and displayed a BJP figure alongside weapons. The review says it searched for evidence that weapons had been seized from a BJP figure’s home in Madhya Pradesh and then checked reporting by The Times of India and NDTV. It reports that these sources supported the video’s authenticity. The review does not provide the linked articles’ full text in the supplied excerpt, so their underlying evidence cannot be independently assessed here. [S1] The review identifies the person as Sanjay Yadav, a BJP figure in Sendhwa, Madhya Pradesh. It says police seized 17 petrol bombs, 10 imported firearms and 110 bullets from his home, and registered a case against Yadav and others. The account also says Yadav had more than 40 criminal cases pending against him; the excerpt does not give details of those cases or describe their status. [S1] For the video’s provenance, the review identifies the senior police officer shown as Yanchan Dholkar Bhutia and says the operation took place under her leadership. It concludes that the Facebook post’s central claim—that weapons were seized from the BJP figure’s home—was supported. Its note that the video spread during the parliamentary election period is context supplied by the review, not evidence about the seizure itself. [S1]
Claim: RSS men arrested in Army question paper leak
Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating: False
The post under review claimed that 18 RSS members from Maharashtra and Goa were arrested for stealing an Indian Army exam paper and selling it, and attributed an announcement to Thane police chief Nitin Thakre. Fact Crescendo’s investigation compared those details with reports of an Army Recruitment Board question-paper leak. It says the underlying leak and arrests were real, but the reporting it consulted did not identify the arrested people as RSS members: “In this, at no point does it say that the arrested persons are RSS members.” The review therefore distinguishes a genuine exam-leak case from the post’s unsupported political identification of the suspects. The review reports that the arrests occurred in 2017, rather than recently, and that the case covered Nashik, Pune, Nagpur, other parts of Maharashtra, and Goa. It says 18 people were arrested over selling the paper for Rs. 2 lakh, including two former Army officers; it also identifies another arrested person as a Home Guard. These details support the existence of the case, but do not establish that the accused belonged to the RSS. The review also checked the post’s attribution to Nitin Thakre. It says he was not the head of Thane city police, but a senior crime-branch police officer. Its conclusion is that the post combined a real, older recruitment-test leak case with unsupported claims about RSS membership and the officer’s position. The review does not present evidence that all details in the post were false; it specifically accepts that the exam irregularity occurred while rejecting the RSS connection and correcting the attribution and timing.
Claim is the railway cook really beating the passengers
Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating FALSE
Viral Video Showing Bjp MLA Anil Kumar Upadhay Beating a Dalit Man for Driving a Luxurious Car
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Police busted a racket in Bengaluru that involved in the preparation of fake voter ID cards for muslim voters and arrested Youth Congress National Secretary Ibrahim.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The claim concerned a police raid at Prabhat Complex in Bengaluru, alleging that authorities had uncovered a racket making fake voter ID cards for Muslim voters and arrested Youth Congress National Secretary Ibrahim. The review’s central finding is that the items seized were electoral voter slips, not voter ID cards. It says a case was booked against Ibrahim, identified in its account as a Congress worker, but does not say that he was arrested as the claim asserts. To check the allegation, the review reports searching YouTube for “Fake Voter ID Card Racket in Bengaluru” and finding India Today coverage of an incident involving an alleged gang at Prabhat Complex. It then cites Deccan Chronicle reporting that Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer Sanjeev Kumar clarified what police and the Election Commission flying squad had found during the raids: voter slips bearing the Congress party symbol. The review’s account therefore distinguishes between printed slips and official voter identification cards, and links the case against Ibrahim to the party symbol on those slips. The review also notes an important qualification: it says printing voter slips without a party symbol is not illegal under Election Commission rules. In the incident it describes, however, slips with the Congress symbol were found and a case was booked against Ibrahim. This evidence supports the review’s conclusion that the post mischaracterized the seized materials as fake voter IDs; the excerpt does not establish that the materials were made specifically for Muslim voters.
Claim: Sadhvi Pragya accused in Ajmer Dargah bombing
Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating: False
Police advisory asking people to beware of north Indian criminals during the month of Ramadan
Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating: False
Claim: BSP man cuts off his finger
Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating: False