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A video showing the retrieval of a ruptured gas cylinder meant for domestic use from under a train on a railway track is doing rounds on social media. While sharing the video, some internet users connected it to the recent triple train collision in Odisha and suggested it to be a larger conspiracy to cause similar accidents at multiple locations countrywide.
While giving this video a communal spin, people claimed that the video was recently shot in Karnataka and alleged that people of the Muslim community use their children for train derailments. The Logical Indian fact check team verified the viral claim.
While giving Odisha train accident a communal angle, people on social media claimed that the station master of the Bahanga Bazar railway station (the nearest railway station to the accident side) is a Muslim identified as Sharif Ali and he fled the accident site.
The viral image is from Egypt and shows a man carrying a mannequin. No communal angle was involved in this case. Hence, the viral claim is false.
The image shows the ISKCON temple in the vicinity of the rail accident. The white structure is not a mosque as claimed by social media users.
The accused in the molesting incident are not from the Muslim community as is confirmed by Gaya Police. Three persons have been arrested for the crime.
We found that both images do not show hoardings and graffiti posted ahead of PM Modi's Rajasthan visit. The images date back to 2019 and were shot in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal respectively.
We found that the viral video shows a rehearsal of a play and not the training of girls to offer namaz. The Baghpat police and media reports confirmed that the viral video shows a rehearsal and not a situation with a communal angle.
The image shows Resham Khan, the victim of an acid attack, at the hands of John Tomlin, who was reportedly 'emotionally unstable'. The attack was also treated as an Islamaphobic crime by police.
It does not show one of the protesting wrestlers but rather Ranjit Singh, who was arrested during the farmers' protest in 2021. The viral claim is false.
The video dates back to 2022 and shows women being rescued by YPJ forces, who were Yazidis.
We found that the video shows an objection raised by DMK MP S. Senthilkumar to Hindu religious practices at an even without the inclusion of other religious beliefs. The viral claim is false.
We found that the video shows a man adamant on not paying the due amount to the Karnataka State Electricity board. As per the authorities, he had refused to pay the pending electricity bill and did not cite the government's scheme.
While sharing this video, people on social media claimed that it shows an incident from an Indian madrassa where students are being instructed on how to kill people. The Logical Indian fact check team verified the viral claim.
The Logical Indian fact-check team verified the claim and found it viral with a false communal spin, as the accused was Hindu, with a psychological issue that led to such an act. Further, the police clarified that he did not break any idol.
The viral video is shot in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and not in Karnataka. It has nothing to do with Congress or the election. The viral claim is false.
While sharing this video, people on social media claimed that it shows employees at an IT company celebrating the results of the Karnataka Assembly elections.
We found that the viral visual is more than likely the creation of artificial intelligence. US authorities and media reports have denied the claims of an attack on the Pentagon.
The Logical Indian fact check team verified the claim and found it false as the matter of the Gyanvapi mosque is going on in the Supreme Court, which has currently stayed the carbon dating of the structure found there until the next hearing.
The Logical Indian fact check team verified the claim and found it false, as the woman seen in the video hails from the Hindu community and is mentally disturbed, which led to committing such an act.
We found that the viral video shows children coming to Kolhapur from Bihar via West Bengal to receive education at a madrasa. The viral claim is false.
We found that the video was shot in Kavassery, Kerala showing a fireworks display during the Pooram festival in Kerala. The viral claim is false.
The Logical Indian Fact Check team verified the claim and found it to be false as the viral video is old, shot in 2017. It is a clip from a street play performed in Kerala based on the death of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh.
The video dates back to at least two years old and the man in the viral video is Dr. Syed Irshad Ahmad Al Bukhari who gave the speech in Bangladesh condemning Yati Narsinghanand’s controversial speeches.