{"id":118246,"date":"2022-05-16T15:57:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T10:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=118246"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:57:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T10:27:58","slug":"media-misreport-mandya-student-muskan-khan-touring-abroad-without-police-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/media-misreport-mandya-student-muskan-khan-touring-abroad-without-police-permission\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Muskan Khan &#8216;flee&#8217; from India with family without &#8216;police permission&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the ongoing dispute regarding Hijab in Karnataka, which brought Mandya student <a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/education\/muskan-khan-mandya-hijab-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Muskan Khan<\/a> to the limelight, a piece of unverified news is viral in her name. Several regional media outlets and social media users have claimed that Muskan has left India without informing the police. There are also racist claims alleging that she has gone abroad to meet &#8220;terrorists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A YouTube channel, Capital TV, claimed that Muskan Khan has fled to Saudi Arabia with her family and has hidden her visit from the Indian police. The channel claimed that Muskan\u2019s family has received &#8220;funds&#8221; since they do not have the wherewithal to travel. Capital TV has also accused Muskan of taking funds from &#8220;terrorist organisations&#8221; and participating in &#8220;intelligence meetings&#8221;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Pr8QW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<iframe style=\"width:100%; height:auto; aspect-ratio:16\/9;\" title=\"Biggest Disclosure On Hijab Girl Muskaan, Ran Abroad With Family | Capital TV\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mahXgYgfVaI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Pr8QW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public TV<\/a> has claimed that Muskan did not give any information to the police about her tour to Saudi Arabia. According to the channel, terrorist organisations had praised her after she chanted slogans of \u2018Allah-hu-Akbar\u2019. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/bg5T3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-118247 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/word-image-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/word-image-3.jpg 556w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/word-image-3-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powertvnews.in\/muslim-student-mushkan-fly-soudhi-58976-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power TV News<\/a> wrote, \u2018\u2019Muskan has gone abroad, is this a conspiracy to meet extremists?\u2019\u2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/wgNVy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-118248 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/word-image-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/word-image-3-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/word-image-3-1-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/word-image-3-1-768x654.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>News18 Kannada has also made a similar claim. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/U7wY1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-118249 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/word-image-3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/word-image-3-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/word-image-3-2-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/word-image-3-2-768x645.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Tj4vl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asiaent News Kannada<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=572372717485212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTV News<\/a> and right-wing propaganda website<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/7N3VV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> OpIndia<\/a> further amplified the claim.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-118246 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/media-misreport-mandya-student-muskan-khan-touring-abroad-without-police-permission\/screenshot_20220512-151126\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot_20220512-151126.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot_20220512-151126.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot_20220512-151126-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot_20220512-151126-790x1024.jpg 790w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot_20220512-151126-768x996.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/media-misreport-mandya-student-muskan-khan-touring-abroad-without-police-permission\/screenshot-2022-05-12-170457\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1354\" height=\"879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-12-170457.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-12-170457.jpg 1354w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-12-170457-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-12-170457-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-12-170457-768x499.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1354px) 100vw, 1354px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/media-misreport-mandya-student-muskan-khan-touring-abroad-without-police-permission\/screenshot-2022-05-12-165440\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1893\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-12-165440.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-12-165440.jpg 1893w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-12-165440-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-12-165440-1024x402.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-12-165440-768x302.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-12-165440-1536x604.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1893px) 100vw, 1893px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4><strong>Fact-check<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Alt News conducted a keyword search to gather information on this topic. We found a fact-check article from a news portal named<a href=\"https:\/\/english.varthabharati.in\/karnataka\/reports-of-mandya-student-muskan-khan-touring-abroad-without-police-permission-is-fake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Varthabharati<\/a>. It quotes Mandya SP Yatish N as stating that Muskan visited Saudi Arabia for personal reasons for which police permission is not required. He added that no complaint has been filed against Muskan and her family. The police officer reiterated the same to Alt News.<\/p>\n<p>Muskan told Alt News that she is on Umrah pilgrimage and is currently in Medina.<\/p>\n<p>The viral claim is, therefore, blatantly false. It must be noted that Alt News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/media-misreport-mandya-student-muskan-khan-touring-abroad-without-police-permission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first reported<\/a> on this piece of disinformation on May 12, and the channels that carried the news have neither taken down their reports nor updated or affixed clarifications to the articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the ongoing dispute regarding Hijab in Karnataka, which brought Mandya student Muskan Khan to the limelight, a piece of unverified news is viral in her name. Several regional media outlets and social media users have claimed that Muskan has left India without informing the police. There are also racist claims alleging that she has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":118253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[701],"class_list":["post-118246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-news","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Untitled-design-25.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118246"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118329,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118246\/revisions\/118329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118246"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=118246"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=118246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}