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By Anmol Alphonso An old video of a police constable physically assaulting an elderly man at Jabalpur railway station in Madhya Pradesh is being shared with a misleading claim that the incident took place in Uttar Pradesh. BOOM found that the video is from July 2022 when it went viral and caused outrage leading to the police officer's suspension. In viral video a police constable is kicking an elderly man in his face and punching him, at a railway platform. The 28 seconds video was posted on X by a parody handle impersonating YouTuber Dhruv Rathee with the caption, "Uttar Pradesh is heading to...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A viral video claims that the Electronic Voting Machines counted 12,87,000 votes when only 11 lakh people voted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2024 Lok Sabha constituency. Fact: BOOM found that the video is false. We also found that the video went viral just before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in April, and the Election Commission of India (ECI) had refuted the claim on April 7, 2024. Tools used: The ECI called out the viral video and stated that it's from 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The total number of electors in Varanasi during the 2019 elections was 18,56,79...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video of a bulldozer driver, who was arrested for bulldozing toll booths on the Delhi-Lucknow highway in Uttar Pradesh, is being shared on social media with a false and communal claim that the accused driver is a Muslim. BOOM reached out to Hapur Police, Uttar Pradesh who confirmed that the accused JCB driver's name is Dheeraj, and confirmed that he is not a Muslim. A drunk bulldozer operator smashed portions of Chhajarsi toll plaza in Pilkhuwa area in a fit of rage here on June 11, 2024, after the staff asked him to pay the toll fee, Deccan Herald reported. After the video...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: Social media posts claiming that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), won 165 seats in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election with a victory margin fewer than 2,000 votes, are viral online. Fact: BOOM found that the claims made in the viral message are false. The same post was viral in 2022 after the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections which BOOM had debunked back then. Tools used: As per the Election Commission of India's website, the lowest victory margin for the BJP is not below 1,587 votes in the 2024 elections. Even for the 2022 UP elections, BJP won 11 seats w...
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By Hazel Gandhi A 2020 video showing Muslim women waiting outside a bank in Uttar Pradesh is viral online as recent and being shared with the misleading claim that the women were waiting to avail their promised sum of Rs 8,500 under the Congress' Mahalaxmi scheme. BOOM found that the video dates back to 2020 and was taken in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, where beneficiaries of the Jan Dhan scheme were waiting to withdraw their money. While campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi spoke about how, if elected to power, he would introduce schemes for youth...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old news report about the introduction of a Population Control Bill in Uttar Pradesh is viral online as recent. BOOM found that the report is from July 2021 and carries the details of a proposed draft of the Uttar Pradesh Population Control Bill, which has not been passed in the Parliament. The viral clip shows a video report by Republic Bharat about UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath preparing to introduce a draft of the Population Control Bill. The anchor is heard talking about how, if passed, this law would prohibit families with more than two children from accessing upto ...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video purporting to show a Muslim man criticising the Hindus of Ayodhya for not electing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power in their constituency of Faizabad is viral online. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video does not show a Muslim man, but a pro-BJP Hindu content creator from Agra, Dhirendra Raghav. The results of the Lok Sabha elections were announced on June 4, 2024, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Faizabad, Lallu Singh, lost to Samajwadi Party's Awadhesh Prasad by a margin of 54,567 votes. This defeat has been especially upsetting ...
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By Hera Rizwan Sunil Dutt Dubey, Deputy Superintendent of Police from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh has been spending a lot of time answering calls from people who tell him that they have been scammed. Ironically, the people who have been duped find Dubey after searching for the scamster's photo. Dubey's photo has been misused by several scammers who pretend to be a cop on their WhatsApp profile. "Half of my days are spent responding to calls from people who were either scammed or narrowly escaped a scam. Some fraudsters execute FedEx scams, while others demand bribes in fabricated cases to intimid...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video purporting to show Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) being transported in a vehicle is viral online with the false claim that it shows the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) engaging in EVM fraud during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. BOOM, in its factcheck, found that the claims are false, the video dates back to 2022 and was taken during the Assembly Elections in Uttar Pradesh; it is unrelated to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The video shows multiple EVMs being recovered from the back of a tempo with a huge crowd surrounding it. It is being shared on X with a satirical ...
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By Srijit Das A video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is viral with a false claim that it captures Gandhi's visit to the Ram temple in Ayodhya following his nomination filing from Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli for the Lok Sabha elections. BOOM found that the video is old and from Jharkhand's Deoghar district. The footage shows Gandhi's visit to the Baba Baidyanath Dham temple as part of his nationwide Bharat Jodo Nyay rally on February 3, 2024. In the 57-second video clip, the Congress leader can be seen coming out of a temple, while in the background, a group of people can be heard chanting slog...
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