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A co-founder of right-wing propaganda portal Postcard News, Mahesh Hegde, made a sensationalist claim on Twitter on July 3.
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The NCRB at the time had published no data beyond 2016. The NCRB doesn't segregate criminal cases community-wise.
Rumour-mongers communalising crime, beware! India Today Fact Check has exposed attempts to fuel communal hatred by linking Muslims with incidents of rape.
A co-founder of right-wing propaganda portal Postcard News, Mahesh Hegde made a sensationalist claim on Twitter on July 3.
He came out with data that suggested most rapes were committed by Muslims.
Hegde, who had been earlier arrested in Karnataka for spreading fake news, issued some figures on his Twitter handle.
According to him, Muslims accounted for 96 per cent of rapes in the 2016-18 period.
"From 2016-2018, total 84374 rapes happened in the country 81000 rapists were Musl*ms 96 % of the women and the children targeted by the rapists were Hindus In nation it's not Musl*ms Who are in danger but HINDUS," he wrote in the post that has generated more than 1,200 retweets.
From 2016-2018,
Total 84374 rapes happened in the country
81000 rapists were Musl*ms
96 % of the women and the children targeted by the rapists were Hindus
In nation it's not Musl*ms
Who are in danger but HINDUS Mahesh Vikram Hegde (@mvmeet) July 3, 2018
2016 to 2018 Rape cases in India 84734
81000 Rapists are muslims
96% victims are Hindu girls
It's Hindus who are in danger not muslims.. Sanjay Mehta (@SanjayM22502793) July 3, 2018
Recent Data says in India 90% Rapes are committed by Muslims and their 96% victims are non-Muslims since Muslim girls don't report Rapes & rapist r from Single mother divorced, somehow surviving. CHILLING DETAILS. Pl spread this awareness bcoz it is so shameful India-Rape country Sharma (@Sharma43051424) July 3, 2018
@Nidhi The real thing is you have to run away from the truth , 84734 rape in the country in 2016, of which 81000 are rapists are Muslim
And 96%
Rape victims are Hindus ???? Som Tiwari (@VoiceOfSomu) June 30, 2018
Hegde cited no official source for the figures he circulated. "I have the data backing this message but I am not sharing it with anybody at this point of time," he told India Today when asked about the source.
But our fact check busted his claims.
The Fact Check team examined the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) and found it had published no data beyond 2016.
We next checked the NCRB thoroughly to look for any religion-based statistics. But none segregated criminal cases community-wise.
The NCRB categorises rape data based on the victims' age and caste if SC/ST and offenders' relation with the victims.
India Today debunked the malicious attempts to give a communal colour to sexual assaults.
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