“Claim: Arjun sampath not asked hindus to boycott electricity and use kerosene lamp”
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“Recent video of Delhi Qazi giving a hate speech against the Hindus”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: It is an old video. The video is not related to the recent violence in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri. The person talking in the video is Mufti Raees Ahmad Qasmi (Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, Dehradun); he is not Delhi Qazi. The video is…
“Recent video of a Muslim man threatening a policeman in the Jahangirpuri area in Delhi”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The video shared in the post shows an old incident that took place at the Chopda bus stand in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. In September 2018, a heated argument took place between a policeman and a fruit vendor f…
“Picture of the Virabhadreshwara temple that emerged while demolishing a Mosque in Raichur, Karnataka”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: In 2016, as part of a road-widening project, the Raichur district authorities demolished the Ek Minar Mosque in Raichur. The Hindu communities in Raichur then alleged that the pillars emerged from the demolition have a …
“Images of a Muslim couple marrying their own children”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: These images are actually related to a Quran recital ceremony. Oldest social media posts that shared these images claimed them to be of Hafiz-e-Quran ceremony. Moreover, corroboration of the timeline of availability the…
“Video of an ancient temple that is now converted into a Mosque in Mangalore, Karnataka”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The video shared in the post shows the ancient Zeenath Baksh Masjid located in the Bunder area in the city of Mangalore. This Masjid was believed to be constructed by the Arab traders in 644 AD, with the help of Raja Ch…
“Video of Muslims offering Namaz on the streets in India”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The video shared in the post shows an old incident that took place in Istanbul, Turkey. This prayer was held at the Tiryanki Hasan Pasha Street in Istanbul. This video has nothing to do with India
“Haldiram’s group is currently under the ownership of a Muslim; Yogesh & Naresh, grandsons of Haldiram sold the company to a Muslim”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: As per the reports there is no grandson of Ganga Bhishen Agarwal (Haldiram) going by the name Yogesh and Naresh. Thus the argument that these two grandsons sold the company to a Muslim does not hold true. Further, accor…
“Video of a Hindu groups attacking the Luthra Sharif Dargah in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: The video shared in the post shows a recent incident that took place at the Luthra Sharif Dargah in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. On 02 April 2022, a ‘Shobha Yatra’ rally was organized in Bilaspur on the occasion of the Hindu…
“Video of a Muslim man brutally assaulting Hindu women in Mirzapur”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The incident shared in the post had taken place in January 2022 at the Kotwali Katra area in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh. Both the accused and the victims of this incident belong to the Muslim community. Mirzapur Police thr…
“Video of a Muslim threatening Hindus in Karauli”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: The video is being shared on social media at least since 2020. So, the video is old, and is not related to the recent Karauli violence in Rajasthan. On 02 April 2022, Rajasthan’s Karauli had witnessed severe communal at…
“Video of a chopper showering flowers on the crowd gathered to celebrate the ‘Hindu New Year’ festival in Uttar Pradesh”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The video shared in the post show visuals from the 2018 Ram Navami festival in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The video shared in the post is old and has nothing to do with the recent Hindu New Year celebrations in Uttar Pradesh
“Video shows people standing on a mosque gate and waving a saffron flag in Karauli (Rajasthan)”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The video is not related to Karauli (Rajasthan). The mosque shown in the video is at Gahmar in Ghazipur district (Uttar Pradesh)
“Visuals of Muslim men obstructing Hindu rally on Hindu New Year’s day”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: These viral visuals are actually related to an old incident of communal clashes that took place in Punjab’s Phagwara back in 2016. While incidents of communal violence have been reported recently on Hindu New Year Day i…
“Properties of Muslims who migrated to Pakistan from India after 1947 are vested with the Waqf board”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: It is the government that took control of those properties of those who migrated to Pakistan following the initial years of partition. Government compensated people who came back from Pakistan to India with these proper…
“Video of a Muslim tailor misbehaving with Hindu Women”
Sunanda Naik rated this: FALSE
“Video of people vandalising a Hindu temple in Bangladesh”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: he video is from Pakistan and not Bangladesh. The visuals are from August 2021, when a mob had vandalised Siddhi Vinayak temple in Rahim Yar district of Pakistan. Temples were vandalised recently in Bangladesh, but this…
“Video of Hindus who were burnt alive by Muslims in West Bengal”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The video shared in the post shows the visuals of an old bus accident that took place in Odisha, in 2020. The West Bengal Police through a tweet clarified that no Hindu women or children were killed during the recent vi…
“Video shows goons attacking Muslims after watching ‘The Kashmir Files’ movie”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The incident in the video happened in Surat and is not related to ‘The Kashmir Files’ movie. Most of the accused in the incident are Muslims. So, there is no communal angle to the incident
“Video shows the chariot festival of Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple at Kadiri in AP”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: The chariot festival video is not related to Kadiri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple (Andhra Pradesh). It shows the Tiruvarur chariot festival in Tamil Nadu