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Officials said this photo shows goat meat recovered at a station in southern India in 2018

Published on 12 December 2019 at 08:05

A screenshot of a purported WhatsApp chat thread has been shared hundreds of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter that claim it contains an image of inspectors in India seizing dog meat intended for restaurants in Mumbai. The claim is false; the image, which has circulated online since November 2018, actually shows police at a railway station in southern India seizing meat that officials later identified as goat meat.

This video shows the funeral of an Indian army soldier that was held a day before the Hyderabad attack

Published on 12 December 2019 at 05:30

A video has been viewed more than a million times in Facebook, Twitter and YouTube posts that claim the footage shows the funeral of a 27-year-old veterinary doctor who was gang raped and killed on November 27 in Hyderabad, a major city in southern India. The claim is false; the video actually shows the funeral of an Indian army soldier in a village in west India which was held on November 26, a day before the attack in Hyderabad.

This video shows Indian police distributing Islamic prayer beads during an annual unity event organised by the central government

Published on 12 December 2019 at 04:30

A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube alongside a claim it shows Indian police distributing Islamic prayer beads on orders from the newly formed government in Maharashtra, a state in west India. The claim is misleading; authorities said the video shows police giving pray beads during National Integration Week, an annual unity initiative that is organised by the central government and held every year in November.

This video shows police in a different state hitting a suspect in an unrelated rape case

Published on 11 December 2019 at 07:00

A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts that claim it shows police beating a suspect in a high profile rape and murder case that happened in Hyderabad on November 27. The claim is false; the video actually shows police in the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh hitting a man accused of rape; the footage had circulated online prior to the Hyderabad attack.

Trupti Desai said she entered the Islamic religious site in 2016 following a court ruling

Published on 10 December 2019 at 09:20

A photo has been shared in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts that claim it shows Muslim men congratulating a female Indian activist for her work to get women permission to enter a Hindu temple -- even as she was blocked from entering a Muslim shrine. The claim is misleading; the activist, Trupti Desai, has campaigned successfully for women to be given full access to both Hindu and Muslim religious sites; she told AFP she entered the inner sanctum of the Islamic shrine mentioned in the post in 2016, after a court ruling granted women access.

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