A video is being shared on social media claiming that a 3-year-old girl was raped and killed in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: A 3-year-old girl was raped and killed in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh.
Fact: The 3-year-old girl in the video died due to the injuries suffered in a road accident, not because of rape. Aligarh Police posted in a tweet, clarified that girl in the video died because of the road accident at Akrabad city in Aligarh district. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
On reverse image search of screenshots in the video, a tweet by the Aligarh Police about this incident was found in the Twitter. In the tweet, Aligarh Police clarified that the three-year-old girl in the video died because of the injuries suffered in a road accident at Akrabad city, Uttar Pradesh. Aligarh police alerted the social media users not to share the video with the false allegations of rape in this incident.
Aligarh district SP shared a video on Twitter detailing about the three-year-old girl’s accident in Akrabad. In the video, Aligarh SP mentioned that the accident took place on ‘04 November 2020’. He also clarified that all the allegations of rape are false. Aligarh police also shared the video of the statement given by the dead girl’s mother. In the statement, she said that the reason for her child’s death is due to the injuries suffered in a road accident.
To sum it up, 3-year-old girl in the video died due to the injuries suffered in a road accident, not because of the rape.
