“Video of UP police arresting a person who threatened to remove a Durga Puja Pandal in Azamgarh”
What FACTLY found
The video is from an incident in Noida when police arrested a group of four miscreants. The group was infamously called as ‘screwdriver’ gang as they would attack the victims with screwdrivers and later rob them. The group were identified as Anand Verma, Shiv Kumar Verma, Deepak Verma and Bablu Verma. However, the Azamgarh Police did arrest a person and registered a case for waving illegal firearm at a religious place (Durga Puja Pandal). The accused was identified as Ansar Ahmed of Azamgarh,...
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 22 October 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 8 November 2021, 17 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
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