{"id":70345,"date":"2020-07-02T18:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=70345"},"modified":"2020-07-03T13:35:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T08:05:19","slug":"old-images-of-a-young-girl-hanged-on-a-tree-shared-with-false-hindu-muslim-angle-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-images-of-a-young-girl-hanged-on-a-tree-shared-with-false-hindu-muslim-angle-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Old photos of girl murdered in Rajasthan shared with false Muslim angle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographs of the dead body of a girl hanging from a tree have been shared on social media with the claim that Naseer Khan raped and murdered the girl in Rajasthan&#8217;s Sapotara. It&#8217;s being said that she was 8 years old. Below is a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Real_AbhiShukla\/status\/1277288925564858368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet by @Real_AbhiShukla<\/a> where the claim has been made in Hindi \u2014 &#8220;8 \u0935\u0930\u094d\u0937\u0940\u092f \u092c\u091a\u094d\u091a\u0940 , \u0938\u092a\u094b\u091f\u0930\u093e , \u0930\u093e\u091c\u0938\u094d\u0925\u093e\u0928 \u092e\u0947\u0902 # \u0928\u0938\u0940\u0930 \u0916\u093e\u0928 \u0928\u0947 # \u092c\u0932\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0915\u093e\u0930 \u0915\u0947 \u092c\u093e\u0926 # \u0939\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0915\u0930 \u0936\u0935 \u092a\u0947\u0921\u093c \u0938\u0947 \u0932\u091f\u0915\u093e \u0926\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0917\u092f\u093e\u0964&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-70346 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/\u0905\u092d\u0940-\u0936\u0941\u0915\u094d\u0932\u093e_https_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/\u0905\u092d\u0940-\u0936\u0941\u0915\u094d\u0932\u093e_https_.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/\u0905\u092d\u0940-\u0936\u0941\u0915\u094d\u0932\u093e_https_-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/\u0905\u092d\u0940-\u0936\u0941\u0915\u094d\u0932\u093e_https_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The images are circulating across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/top\/?q=8%20%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF%20%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80%20%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%20&amp;epa=SEARCH_BOX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=8%20%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF%20%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80%20%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%20&amp;src=recent_search_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Alt News has also received fact-check requests on its official mobile application.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-70345 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><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\/old-images-of-a-young-girl-hanged-on-a-tree-shared-with-false-hindu-muslim-angle-on-social-media\/image-2-8\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/image-2.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/image-2.png 750w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/image-2-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/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\/old-images-of-a-young-girl-hanged-on-a-tree-shared-with-false-hindu-muslim-angle-on-social-media\/13_8_%e0%a4%b5%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b7%e0%a5%80%e0%a4%af_%e0%a4%ac%e0%a4%9a%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%9a%e0%a5%80_%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%aa%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%9f%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%be_%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%9c%e0%a4%b8\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"427\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/13_8_\u0935\u0930\u094d\u0937\u0940\u092f_\u092c\u091a\u094d\u091a\u0940_\u0938\u092a\u094b\u091f\u0930\u093e_\u0930\u093e\u091c\u0938\u094d\u0925\u093e\u0928_\u2013_Facebook_Search.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/13_8_\u0935\u0930\u094d\u0937\u0940\u092f_\u092c\u091a\u094d\u091a\u0940_\u0938\u092a\u094b\u091f\u0930\u093e_\u0930\u093e\u091c\u0938\u094d\u0925\u093e\u0928_\u2013_Facebook_Search.png 427w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/13_8_\u0935\u0930\u094d\u0937\u0940\u092f_\u092c\u091a\u094d\u091a\u0940_\u0938\u092a\u094b\u091f\u0930\u093e_\u0930\u093e\u091c\u0938\u094d\u0925\u093e\u0928_\u2013_Facebook_Search-181x300.png 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>Fact-check<\/h4>\n<p>A reverse-image search of the photographs took us to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelallantop.com\/news\/in-rajasthan-karauli-young-girl-found-hanged-on-the-tree-police-suspect-love-affair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Lallantop<\/a> published on June 22, 2019. According to the report, a 19-year-old girl was murdered in Rajasthan&#8217;s Karauli district. On June 20, she had left her home for defecation and was later found hanging from a tree in another village. The doctor who conducted her post-mortem ruled out rape.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-70351 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/suspect_love_affair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1104\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/suspect_love_affair.jpg 1104w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/suspect_love_affair-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/suspect_love_affair-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/suspect_love_affair-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/suspect_love_affair-990x669.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1104px) 100vw, 1104px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As per a report published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhaskar.com\/rajasthan\/karoli\/news\/rajasthan-news-gajjupura-slaughtered-the-young-woman-on-midnight-and-hanged-in-the-tree-at-turangpura-tree-083504-4828046.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dainik Bhaskar<\/a> on June 22, the girl died after her throat was strangulated. The PM report did not hint at rape. The report said, &#8220;Initial police investigation speculated a lovers&#8217; spat as the motive behind the crime. The police found the footprints of a person on a far below a field where the deceased&#8217;s slippers were also found at a distance of 100 feet from the scene of the crime. On the other side, the shoe prints of the pressure applied to kill the girl were found.<\/p>\n<p>A follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhaskar.com\/rajasthan\/jaipur\/news\/in-karoli-rajasthan-blind-murder-case-open-by-police-now-lover-arrest-01579931.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report published by Dainik Bhaskar on June 26<\/a> said that the police arrested Mahendra Mina and the motive behind the murder was a lovers&#8217; spat. Mina killed the girl to get rid of her and later tied her dead body from a tree.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-70352 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/Dainik_B.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"949\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/Dainik_B.png 949w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/Dainik_B-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/Dainik_B-768x338.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 949px) 100vw, 949px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photographs of a year-old incident were shared on social media with the false claim that a Muslim man named Naseer Khan raped and murdered an 8-year-old girl in Rajasthan. The police had arrested Mahendra Mina in connection with the crime. Furthermore, the girl was not a minor but 19 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographs of the dead body of a girl hanging from a tree have been shared on social media with the claim that Naseer Khan raped and murdered the girl in Rajasthan&#8217;s Sapotara. It&#8217;s being said that she was 8 years old. Below is a tweet by @Real_AbhiShukla where the claim has been made in Hindi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":70353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[664],"class_list":["post-70345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/Facebook_Ad_1200x628_px_44_.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70345","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70345"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70423,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70345\/revisions\/70423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70345"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=70345"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=70345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}