Tag: Varanasi

2015 video of lathi charge on Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand falsely shared linking to Prayagraj Mahakumbh

Usha Manoj

The viral video is from 2015, when the police lathi-charged Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand during a protest over Ganesh immersion in Varanasi.  Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of Jyotish Peeth, has criticized the Uttar Pradesh government for the tragic stampede in Mahakumbh. He reportedly said that the government had no moral right to remain in power […]

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Did a dalit Hindu lady from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh beheaded six Muslims after they threatened her to convert the religion?

Siddharth Sahu

An old message of a dalit woman beheading six muslim men has resurfaced again on social media. The claim states that after being threatened for rape and forceful religion conversion by six Muslim men, a Hindu dalit woman from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, beheaded those men. However, Fact Crescendo found the claim to be false. This […]

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Unrelated image falsely shared as PM Modi touching the feet of IAS Aarti Dogra

Aavya Ray

IAS Aarti Dogra confirmed to Fact Crescendo that the woman in the image is not her. Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Banaras . In this ceremony, he touched the feet of a woman. An image showing this incident is circulating on social media claiming that this picture shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched the feet […]

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Did the BJP workers beat up an inspector ruthlessly, who went to investigate electricity theft at a BJP Leader’s place? Fact Check!

Nita Rao

A Facebook user named ‘Pawan Singh’ shared a post on 10 June 2019. The post as translated from Hindi quoted “An inspector was beaten up badly by BJP workers, when he went to inspect electricity theft at a BJP Leader’s place in Banaras.” As per this post’s claim, in Banaras, BJP workers beat up an […]

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