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By Anmol Alphonso A photo of Indian wrestler Sangeeta Phogat after her 10-0 defeat against US wrestler Jennifer Page Rogers during a wrestling event in Hungary is being shared with the false claim that she lost the series and mocking her for protesting against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh who has been accused of sexual harassment. BOOM found that the claim that she lost the series is misleading as Phogat made a remarkable comeback after the first defeat by clinching a bronze medal in the 59 kg category at the Budapest Ranking Series 2023 held on July 15, 2023. ...
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By Ritika Jain Amid tight security, Delhi Police on Thursday filed a chargesheet and a cancellation report before two local courts in the two sexual harassment cases filed against ex-Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Singh. Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur had on June 8 assured protesting wrestlers that Delhi Police would file its chargesheet in the cases by June 15. The police concluded their probe after reportedly questioning more than 180 people and recording statements of 25. Wrestlers who alleged sexual harassment were taken to the Wrestling Federation of India's Delhi o...
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By Debraj Sarkar The assembly elections in Karnataka dominated the fake news cycle in the month of May, accounting for 21% of all the fact-checks done by BOOM that month. Islamophobia - the vilification of the Muslim community via manufactured false claims - emerged as the most prominent topic in our investigations, with 27% of claims pertaining to it. Last month saw a marked surge in Islamophobic claims, fueled by the Karnataka polls and the release of the film 'The Kerala Story'. The Manipur clashes, Imran Khan's arrest and the ongoing wrestlers' protest were other salient topics that genera...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video of President Droupadi Murmu urging the central government and the Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud to ensure the implementation of court orders so that people "get justice in the true sense" during Jharkhand's new High Court inauguration is being shared with the false claim that she hit out at the government over the ongoing wresters' protest. Several Olympic and national-level wrestlers such as Bajrang Punia, Sakshee Malikkh, and Vinesh Phogat have been protesting against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over ...
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By Ritika Jain The First Information Report (FIR) against Wrestling Federation of India Chief and BJP leader Brij Bhushan Singh alleges a decade-long—from 2012 to 2022—pattern of sexual harassment, stalking, bullying and abuse against female athletes, especially the young. Though the FIR alleges a pattern of abuse over a long period of time, many athletes talk about alleged incidents from a September 2022 training camp in Lucknow. Singh, a six-time MP (five times with BJP, once with Samajwadi Party), was appointed the President of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) in 2011. Olympians and ...
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By Archis Chowdhury An edited image showing wrestler Vinesh Phogat, Sangeeta Phogat, and others smiling inside a police van is viral on social media. Users are sharing this image to purport that the protest, and recent clashes with the police are an act for the camera. BOOM found the original photo, and used the face editing app "Face App" to digitally add smiles to the faces in the image, which resulted in creation of the photo with smiling faces going viral. Phogat and the others were detained by Delhi Police on Sunday following a scuffle between the police and protesting wrestlers, after th...
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By Srijit Das An old, unrelated video of a crowd at a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally has recently been shared with the false claim that it shows a public rally in support of the wrestlers who are protesting against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. New Delhi's Jantar Mantar is currently witnessing a sit-in protest by several Olympic and national-level wrestlers such as Bajrang Punia, Sakshee Malikkh, and Vinesh Phogat. The wrestlers have alleged that Singh, a BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh's Kaiserganj, has sexually harassed multiple women athletes. Th...
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By Srijit Das An old video of a tractor rally is circulating on social media with a misleading claim that the clip shows a rally in support of the wrestlers who are protesting against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. BOOM found that the video is old and is not related to the ongoing protest by the athletes. The clip shows a tractor rally held in Kerala in 2021 against the three farm bills introduced by the central government in late 2020, which led to wide-scale protests. National-level wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat...
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