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Trucks loaded with onions blocked by Mamata Banerjee govt to keep prices inflated? – Alt News fact-check

Pooja Chaudhuri10th December 201910th December 2019

A video showing several cargo trucks loaded with sacks of onions has been massively shared on social media with the claim that the vegetable is being hoarded by the Mamata…

Image of boy with acid burns viral as child punished for wearing Ayyappa necklace in Tamil Nadu school

Pooja Chaudhuri10th December 201910th December 2019

An image of a boy with burn injuries is viral with the claim that a student wearing an Ayyappa necklace was made to wash the bathroom with acid at a…

No, this is not an image of the juvenile convict of the Nirbhaya rape case

Arjun Sidharth10th December 2019

In the wake of the recent Hyderabad rape and murder case and the subsequent police encounter of the accused, a photograph has been shared widely by social media users with…

No, the lady receiving award in viral video is not Hyderabad rape victim

Kinjal9th December 201911th December 2019

A video has gone viral on Facebook with the narrative that the victim of the Hyderabad rape and murder case was bestowed an award at a programme for her research…

Old video from Rajasthan falsely shared as poor women lifted and raped

Jignesh Patel9th December 20199th December 2019

A video is widely circulating on social media where two men can be seen attempting to take a girl hostage while an elderly woman tries to stop the duo. Both…

Clipped image of e-paper shared with false claim of RBI scrapping Rs 2000 note after Dec 31

Arjun Sidharth9th December 20199th December 2019

An image of what appears to be a newspaper article has been shared widely on WhatsApp. The headline of this article is ‘31 दिसंबर के बाद बदले नहीं जा सकेंगे…

Image from 2017 shared as woman raped and beheaded in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh

Pooja Chaudhuri7th December 2019

Images of a corpse of a beheaded woman lying supine are widely circulating on social media with the claim that the body of a gang-rape victim was found in a…

Media misreports image from 2015 as photograph of Hyderabad encounter

Arjun Sidharth6th December 2019

In the early hours of December 6, news emerged that the four accused in the Hyderabad rape and murder case were gunned down in a police encounter, close to the…

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