Topic: Fact Check

The video shared by Advocate B. Balakrishnan, with the caption “Islamic extremists wreak havoc in Bengal… Hindus from minority areas like Murshidabad and Malda are being forced to flee,” shows a large group of armed men, visibly Muslim, walking through a rural landscape surrounded by palm trees and open fields.

Kanpur police on Monday dismissed BJP minority leader Nazia Elahi Khan’s claim that she was attacked by Muslim men on her way to Mahakumbh from Delhi, stating that the incident was actually an accident caused by the driver falling asleep. The police urged her not to spread misleading information.

In the lead-up to the Maharashtra assembly elections, several Hindutva social media accounts, including those of BJP lawmakers, circulated false claims that the Waqf Board had laid claim to the Shree Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai.

A screenshot has been circulating on social media, alleging that a Muslim-owned company supplied adulterated ghee to the Tirupati Balaji Temple, one of India’s most revered religious sites.

The Aaj Tak news website, while reporting on the arbitrary ban of the leftist students' collective “Progressive Students Forum” (PSF) at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, falsely expanded the abbreviation as “Pakistan Students Federation.”

Muslim population in the region comprised 24.68% in 1951, 28.43% in 1991, and 34.22% in 2011, according to data, while Assam CM Himanta Sarma's claim is that Assam’s Muslim population is now at 40%, up from 12% in 1951. This is false.