{"id":13945,"date":"2018-06-05T19:36:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T14:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=13945"},"modified":"2018-07-09T19:15:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:45:54","slug":"dangerous-child-abduction-rumour-frenzy-continues-now-spreads-to-maharashtra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/dangerous-child-abduction-rumour-frenzy-continues-now-spreads-to-maharashtra\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous child-abduction rumour frenzy continues, now spreads to Maharashtra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This message is being forwarded across Whatsapp groups, urging people to protect their children from kidnappers in Maharashtra\u2019s Mirajgaon, Akkalkot and Solapur district. The message has also been shared with identical text by some users<\/a> on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Flurry of rumours related to child abduction and cannibalism<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The last few days have witnessed a spate of rumours that child abduction gangs are active across the country, wreaking havoc and resulting in mob violence. The fear-mongering recently caused lynchings in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana,\u00a0Tamil Nadu,\u00a0Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh, among other states. Police has also\u00a0arrested some people<\/a>\u00a0for spreading rumours and\u00a0creating a fear psychosis. In most or all of these cases, the same set of photographs has been circulated to instill fear and suspicion.<\/p>\n

This set of photographs was used to spread the rumour that kidnappers across Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha are abducting children to harvest their organs.<\/p>\n

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Alt News had debunked these viral claims<\/a> using the Google reverse image search option. Even though the origin of some of the images could not be ascertained, we found that one of them was of an unrelated incident<\/a> from 2017. This is an image which shows five arrested men. Some messages claimed they are child abductors from Tamil Nadu while others claimed they are from Karnataka. A report by\u00a0The News Minute\u00a0<\/a><\/em>had dispelled these rumours, reporting that Bengaluru police has clarified via Twitter that these pictures are fake.<\/p>\n

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Fake one<\/p>\n

\u2014 BengaluruCityPolice (@BlrCityPolice) May 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Child kidnapping video from Pakistan used to spread panic in Maharashtra<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Another video which was earlier attributed to child abduction in Tamil Nadu<\/a> is now being shared with a Marathi caption, urging people to spread the message that children are in danger.<\/p>\n

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To establish the origin of the video, Alt News broke it up into individual frames with InVid software for videos, and reverse searched the image via Google. A video demonstration of the fact-check can be seen below.<\/p>\n