

{"id":65277,"date":"2020-04-27T22:08:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T16:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=65277"},"modified":"2021-07-01T17:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T11:39:46","slug":"zee-news-publishes-2015-news-as-recent-with-false-communal-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/zee-news-publishes-2015-news-as-recent-with-false-communal-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Zee News publishes 2015 story with false claim of human faeces served to &#8216;non-Muslims&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year-old report of two restaurant owners in the UK booked for serving food mixed with human faeces to their customers have been revived on social media. It has been claimed that the Muslim owners served the contaminated food to non-Muslim customers. It is noteworthy that the article carries no such claim.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BEWARE WHERE YOU ORDER YOUR FOOD\u203c<br \/>\nNot just spit, but u can find excreta in your food! Hotel owners Abdul Basit &amp; Amjad in UK, arrested for serving human excretia to their<br \/>\nNon &#8211; Musl!m customers!<br \/>\nThey mixed it in the food sold to<br \/>\nnon &#8211; Musl!ms ! \ud83e\udd2e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wahnNx5M0z\">https:\/\/t.co\/wahnNx5M0z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ashtalakshmi \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@Ashtalakshmi8) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ashtalakshmi8\/status\/1410299283895635969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Former CBI interim chief M Nageswara Rao also shared the Newstrack article from last year however, he did not claim that only non-Muslim customers were given the food. But his tweet termed the owners &#8220;religious fanatics&#8221;, hinting that the act was communally motivated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This news is very important for all of us and our family members, because we all eat outside in dhabas, restaurants, hotels etc, and we will never know or pay attention to whether the cooks, owners etc of dhaba, restaurant, hotel are religious fanatics.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3xp3txxTp8\">https:\/\/t.co\/3xp3txxTp8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 M. Nageswara Rao IPS(R) (@MNageswarRaoIPS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MNageswarRaoIPS\/status\/1409797946527256577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A screenshot of Rao&#8217;s tweet is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/photos?q=abdul%20and%20amjad%20arrested%20for%20serving%20shit%20food%20to%20customers&amp;filters=eyJycF9jcmVhdGlvbl90aW1lOjAiOiJ7XCJuYW1lXCI6XCJjcmVhdGlvbl90aW1lXCIsXCJhcmdzXCI6XCJ7XFxcInN0YXJ0X3llYXJcXFwiOlxcXCIyMDIxXFxcIixcXFwic3RhcnRfbW9udGhcXFwiOlxcXCIyMDIxLTFcXFwiLFxcXCJlbmRfeWVhclxcXCI6XFxcIjIwMjFcXFwiLFxcXCJlbmRfbW9udGhcXFwiOlxcXCIyMDIxLTEyXFxcIixcXFwic3RhcnRfZGF5XFxcIjpcXFwiMjAyMS0xLTFcXFwiLFxcXCJlbmRfZGF5XFxcIjpcXFwiMjAyMS0xMi0zMVxcXCJ9XCJ9In0%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">widespread on Facebook<\/a>. It was shared on a group called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/306285196576514\/posts\/1017789685426058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India Against Urban Naxals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-65277 gallery-columns-2 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\/zee-news-publishes-2015-news-as-recent-with-false-communal-narrative\/cb7b789e-03fe-4e08-b25d-780180ca4d03\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"502\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/cb7b789e-03fe-4e08-b25d-780180ca4d03.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/cb7b789e-03fe-4e08-b25d-780180ca4d03.jpg 502w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/cb7b789e-03fe-4e08-b25d-780180ca4d03-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><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\/zee-news-publishes-2015-news-as-recent-with-false-communal-narrative\/48197fff-dbd0-45ff-b072-3e008060eb62\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"497\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/48197fff-dbd0-45ff-b072-3e008060eb62.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/48197fff-dbd0-45ff-b072-3e008060eb62.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/48197fff-dbd0-45ff-b072-3e008060eb62-261x300.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Instagram page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CQtR-JVroOI\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nation Above Self<\/a> also shared the story writing &#8216;jihad at rise&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h4>Zee News has published the story with a communal angle last year<\/h4>\n<p>On April 24, 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZeeNews\/posts\/3675493739181826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zee News\u00a0published a report<\/a> titled, &#8220;(Kabab was served with bodily waste, the mentality of Jamaatis prevails even abroad) \u0915\u092c\u093e\u092c \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092a\u0930\u094b\u0938\u0924\u0947 \u0925\u0947 \u0936\u0930\u0940\u0930 \u0915\u0940 \u0917\u0902\u0926\u0917\u0940, \u0935\u093f\u0926\u0947\u0936 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092d\u0940 \u0935\u0939\u0940 \u091c\u092e\u093e\u0924\u0940 \u092e\u093e\u0928\u0938\u093f\u0915\u0924\u093e.&#8221; The report has now been updated. The initial version said, &#8220;How far can you be saved from religious fundamentalism? Not just in India, but such a mentality is spread worldwide. Two youths in Britain, Mohammad Abdul Basit and Amjad Bhatti serve human bodily waste to non-Muslim customers.&#8221; The article received 12,000 shares and 14,000 likes on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZeeNews\/posts\/3675493739181826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> where it was shared with the caption, &#8220;They used to misbehave with non-Muslims, the truth has come out (\u0917\u0948\u0930\u0927\u0930\u094d\u092e \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u094b\u0917\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u093e\u0925 \u0915\u0930\u0924\u0947 \u0925\u0947 \u0928\u0940\u091a \u0939\u0930\u0915\u0924, \u0910\u0938\u0947 \u0938\u093e\u092e\u0928\u0947 \u0906\u092f\u093e \u0938\u091a.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65279 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/255ee6ae-447a-4eb8-bbdd-2cc01ce6bdfb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/255ee6ae-447a-4eb8-bbdd-2cc01ce6bdfb.png 502w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/255ee6ae-447a-4eb8-bbdd-2cc01ce6bdfb-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/255ee6ae-447a-4eb8-bbdd-2cc01ce6bdfb-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The article further stated, &#8220;There were two restaurant owners here [in Britain] &#8211; Mohammad Abdul Basit and Amjad Bhatti. According to reports, they used to mix human faeces in the food and serve it to non-Muslim customers. The duo was running their restaurant for a long time in Nottingham.&#8221; The story doesn&#8217;t state when the incident took place.<\/p>\n<p>The original\u00a0Zee News\u00a0article is still available on <a class=\"herald-popup-img\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/hi-in\/news\/other\/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%AC-%E0%A4%AC-%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82-%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0-%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%87-%E0%A4%A5%E0%A5%87-%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0-%E0%A4%B0-%E0%A4%95-%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%97-%E0%A4%B5-%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B6-%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82-%E0%A4%AD-%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B9-%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AE-%E0%A4%A4-%E0%A4%AE-%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B8-%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A4\/ar-BB13612K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">msn.com<\/a>. An archived link of the same can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/H0nuU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. A screenshot of an excerpt from the article (posted below) shows that\u00a0Zee News\u00a0claimed that the restaurant used to prepare two kinds of dishes and people from non-Muslim religions were served food with human faeces.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65280 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/zee-news1-e1587828485221-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/zee-news1-e1587828485221-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/zee-news1-e1587828485221-1-300x62.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/zee-news1-e1587828485221-1-768x160.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/zee-news1-e1587828485221-1-990x206.png 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zee News later updated its report claiming that cases of such food contamination are not only reported in India but also in England. The URL of the article still reads &#8220;tablighi jamaat mentality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65281 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/updated-zee-news-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/updated-zee-news-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/updated-zee-news-1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/updated-zee-news-1-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/updated-zee-news-1-990x680.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/updated-zee-news-1-379x259.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Source of Zee News&#8217;s story &#8211; a viral message<\/h4>\n<p>Zee News&#8217;s\u00a0story is based on a message <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/anuradhadevashish\/posts\/10217115436666247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viral since April 21, 2020<\/a>. The message carries a link to UK-based Daily Mail which is not a part of the Zee News story. This is perhaps why the story neither mentions a source nor the date when the incident occurred. Daily Mail&#8217;s report is from September 2015.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65284 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/facebook-daily.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/facebook-daily.png 392w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/facebook-daily-154x300.png 154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Fact-check<\/h4>\n<p>In this report, we will fact-check two claims separately &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>1. Was the food contaminated based on a person&#8217;s religion?<\/p>\n<p>2. Was human faeces intentionally added to the food?<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3247526\/Kebab-shop-owners-infected-150-customers-rare-form-food-poisoning-meals-contaminated-human-faeces.html?fbclid=IwAR3fpbxZaPO5kOAhK5n12OIK1TtLXyTd0J385v6crmGcVibaenpzpjoZ2cw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Mail<\/a> report does not state that the restaurant owners used to serve unhygienic food to non-Muslim customers. We found that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-nottinghamshire-34337626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/sep\/23\/e-coli-142-takeaway-customers-staff-did-not-wash-hands-khyber-pass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a> had also reported the incident in 2015. These reports also don&#8217;t carry the religious angle. Therefore, the first claim is false.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s talk about the second claim. According to the report in Daily Mail,\u00a0the food was indeed contaminated with human faeces however this wasn&#8217;t intentional but due to &#8220;inadequate hand-washing techniques by the staff.&#8221; The report states, &#8220;Mohammad Abdul Basit and Amjad Bhatti, of the Khyber Pass takeaway in Nottingham, were responsible for an outbreak of E.coli that saw 142 customers fall seriously ill.&#8221; Justice Jeremy Lea, who gave the duo a four-month jail sentence and a fine of \u00a325,000, has been quoted in the report as saying, &#8220;What was going wrong here was the poor handwashing with soap and clean water to reduce the risk of contamination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65287 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/daily-mail.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/daily-mail.png 799w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/daily-mail-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/daily-mail-768x451.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The report published by\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0states, &#8220;More than 100 takeaway customers were sick for up to two months with a rare strain of E coli &#8211; after staff did not wash their hands when using the toilet, a court heard.&#8221; The report also quoted the prosecutor &#8211; &#8220;Nine of the 12 members of staff who handle food at the takeaway were found to have traces of the bacteria, and one of the defendant\u2019s daughters fell ill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BBC&#8217;s\u00a0report carries a statement of Paul Dales, from Nottingham City Council&#8217;s food, health and safety team &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s clear that hand-washing practices by some workers were wholly inadequate and this led to food becoming contaminated.&#8221; The court ordered that the restaurant owners would be suspended for 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the claim that human faeces was intentionally added to the food is also false.<\/p>\n<p>We found that the restaurant &#8216;The Khyber Pass&#8217; is now functional. However, it does not have great reviews on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripadvisor.in\/Restaurant_Review-g186356-d4931743-Reviews-The_Khyber_Pass-Nottingham_Nottinghamshire_England.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tripadvisor.com<\/a>. Several people complained of unhygienic standards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65288 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/The-Khyber-Pass-Nottingham-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/The-Khyber-Pass-Nottingham-.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/The-Khyber-Pass-Nottingham--300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/The-Khyber-Pass-Nottingham--768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/The-Khyber-Pass-Nottingham--74x55.png 74w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/The-Khyber-Pass-Nottingham--111x83.png 111w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/The-Khyber-Pass-Nottingham--215x161.png 215w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/The-Khyber-Pass-Nottingham--990x743.png 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To sum it up, Zee News carried a manufactured version of a true incident from 2015. While two restaurant owners in Britain were indeed found guilty of serving food contaminated with human faeces, this was neither religiously motivated nor was contamination intentional. As laid earlier, the court found that the restaurant staff did not wash their hands properly after using the toilet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year-old report of two restaurant owners in the UK booked for serving food mixed with human faeces to their customers have been revived on social media. It has been claimed that the Muslim owners served the contaminated food to non-Muslim customers. It is noteworthy that the article carries no such claim. 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