“13.13 lakh girls and women went missing in India between 2019-2021”
What FACTLY found
On 26 July 2023, in the Rajya Sabha, in response to a question about missing women, the government presented data on missing women and girls for the years 2019, 2020, and 2021 based on NCRB annual reports. Upon careful examination of these reports, we observed that these figures are cumulative and include untraced women and girls from previous years as well. Moreover, these figures only account for missing cases and not the actual number of women and girls still missing and traced, as a signi...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 26 February 2024. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/reel/1152598229451463
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