Religion

A woman’s body discovered in a trolley bag in Yamuna Expressway is a case of honour killing

Shinjinee Majumder21st November 202221st November 2022

Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery.  Several users have shared images of the body of a young woman found on the Yamuna Expressway, with the claim that she…

Suresh Chavhanke violates Twitter policy, shares venue details of interfaith couple’s wedding reception

Archit21st November 202222nd November 2022

The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the last week. Aftab Amin Poonawalla, the accused and Walker’s live-in partner, was arrested on November…

Jabalpur resort murder: Accused, victim from same community; police rubbish communal spin

Kalim Ahmed21st November 2022

A 14-second-long video clip of a youth speaking to the camera while a bleeding woman lies on a bed with her throat slit is viral on social media. In the…

Fact-check: Police action against illegal construction in Kanpur falsely given communal twist

Priyanka Jha1st November 2022

Twitter user @IRONMONK002 recently shared a purported video from Kanpur of a group of policemen beating two people with sticks and lathis on the terrace of a building. Two bulldozers…

Accused in 17-yr-old’s murder in Delhi not Muslims, false claim viral on social media

Shinjinee Majumder31st October 202231st October 2022

A CCTV footage of a person being stabbed in a narrow lane is being circulated on social media with the claim that the accused belongs to the Muslim community. National…

RSS mouthpiece, Sudarshan News scribes cook up MP rape convict’s name, add communal twist

Kinjal28th October 2022

Recently, the Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh high court delivered its verdict on an appeal made by a rape convict and reduced his life sentence to 20 years’ rigorous…

Body found in Gurugram: Woman’s murder by husband falsely given communal twist

Kalim Ahmed20th October 2022

[Warning: Visuals may be distressing for some. Reader discretion is advised.] A 53-second video clip of police officers investigating a suitcase stuffed with the dead body of a young woman…

Video of Muslim man’s memorial being razed in Andhra Pradesh viral with communal spin

Kalim Ahmed17th October 2022

A 25-second-long video clip of a group of men, who appear to be Muslims, breaking the gates of a structure is widely circulating on social media. This viral clip is…

Man offering prayer at Hanuman temple in Prayagraj not a Muslim, confirm police

Mahaprajna Nayak19th September 2022

A video of a man allegedly offering namaz in a temple in Prayagraj has gone viral on social media. UttarPradesh.org, a regional news portal in Uttar Pradesh, describes how a…

News of Mysore engineering student’s murder viral with communal spin

Kalim Ahmed & Archit8th September 20228th September 2022

On September 2, Star of Mysore, an evening newspaper from the city of Mysuru, reported that a 21-year-old engineering student, Apoorva Shetty, was found murdered in a private hotel on…