“Rahul Gandhi called the Udaipur tailor’s murder accused as children and sought their pardon.”
What FACTLY found
Zee News’ aired an edited video combining video clips of two different remarks recently made by Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad, Kerala. Rahul Gandhi, during a recent media interaction in Kerala, referred to the student activists who vandalized his MP office in Wayanad as children. He did not call the Udaipur tailor’s murder accused as children. ‘Zee News’ misreported this statement of Rahul Gandhi as being made in the context of the Udaipur incident. ‘Zee News’ issued an apology for telecasting Rahu...
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In short
Zee News made this claim around 2 July 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 3 July 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Zee News has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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