Hatebuster: the man who stabbed ASI Dayal was NOT Mohammad Anis Many news channels misinformed that the accused was Mohammad Anis, while his name is Anish Raj
12, Jan 2023 | CJP Team
On January 10, AltNews did a fact check on the name of the accused who, in broad daylight, stabbed ASI Shambhu Dayal of Delhi Police, who later succumbed to his injuries. In a CCTV footage, it can be clearly seen that a young man is stabbing Dayal while people watch and when the crowd came forward to rescue Dayal, the accused, Anish threatened them as well, with the knife.
While this was the point of the news, many news channels, including the ever so notorious Sudarshan News, ANI, Times Now Navbharat, Aaj Tak and NDTV misrepresented the name of the accused as Mohammad Anish or Mohammad Anees. In all possibility this was done to misrepresent the man who stabbed a police officer as belonging to the Muslim community, another opportunity for these mainstream channels to exploit the communal angle to their benefit.
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AltNews founder Mohammed Zubair pointed out how these channels reported the news, with Sudarshan News even calling the accused a “Jihadi”
He posted the screen grabs of these news reports:
Sudarshan News, a pro-BJP propaganda outlet, tweeted a clip of its broadcast on January 8, where the anchor reading the news refers to the accused as “Jihadi Mohammad Anish” multiple times. pic.twitter.com/ZzPj7HHCh7
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) January 10, 2023
Spokesperson of VHP @vinod_bansal, Sudarshan Reporter @MaheshKumarSTV & @KumaarSaagar, BJP spokesperson @SharmaKhemchand shared the report with the same misleading claim the the accused is a “Jihadi” / ‘Mohammed Anees’. pic.twitter.com/KgXQ9rJC37
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) January 10, 2023
It was tweeted by ANI reporter as ‘Mohammed Anees’. pic.twitter.com/P5vA4ahTRl
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) January 10, 2023
Times Now Navbharat @TNNavbharat also mentioned in it multiple times that a suspect named ‘Mohammad Anis’ stabbed ASI Shambhu Dayal. pic.twitter.com/5lebNVDNmZ
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) January 10, 2023
An @aajtak broadcast was tweeted by Sanjay Singh. In this broadcast, the host, Sayeed Ansari, calls the suspect ‘Mohammad Anis’. pic.twitter.com/cZQkU1AfbQ
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) January 10, 2023
Even @ndtv in its MisReport on January 10 named the suspect as ‘Mohammad Anish’. pic.twitter.com/1RM5Sa0sxo
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) January 10, 2023
Update : Even Far Right-Wing propaganda website @OpIndia_in had mentioned Accused name as ‘Mohammed Anees’. pic.twitter.com/UT60McExsE
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) January 10, 2023
To verify this, AltNews accessed a press release issued by the Delhi Police via WhatsApp on January 4, where the accused was called Anish, son of Prahlad Raj. Further a news report by Indian Express named him Anish Raj. To verify it for sure, the portal even spoke to the station in-charge of Mayapuri West who confirmed that the accused was not a Muslim and there was no communal angle to the incident.
Image Courtesy: altnews.in
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