Deceased Chhotu Yadav’s girlfriend Aarti Yadav is alive; Unrelated video shared as her last rites visuals - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
March 17, 2023
A video is being shared on social media claiming it is the visuals showing the last rites of Aarti Yadav, the woman who got national media attention after her boyfriend Chhotu Yadav was killed by her family for being in love with her. The post claims that Aarti Yadav too had passed away recently. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video showing the last rites of Aarti Yadav.
Fact:  Aarti Yadav from the Araria district of Bihar is still alive. Aarti Yadav’s husband and Chhotu Yadav’s brother Manu Yadav published the latest videos of Aarti Yadav on his YouTube channel. Lately, Aarti Yadav was hospitalised because of bad health. She is discharged from the hospital. The video shared in the post has nothing to do with Aarti Yadav. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
On reverse image search of the screenshots of the video, we could not find any reliable sources related to the video shared in the post. When we searched to check whether Aarti Yadav from the Araria district of Bihar had recently passed away, we could not find any news reports confirming this information on the internet.
In November 2022, Aarti Yadav married her deceased boyfriend Chhotu Yadav’s brother Manu Yadav in a private ceremony.  Manu Yadav created a YouTube channel and has been publishing day-to-day-life videos of Aarti Yadav on it. Lately, Aarti Yadav was hospitalised because of bad health. She was discharged from the hospital. Manu Yadav even published the latest videos of Aarti Yadav after she was discharged from the hospital. A few of those videos can be seen here and here.
On comparing the images of Aarti Yadav and the deceased woman shown in the post, it can be confirmed that the deceased woman shown in the video was not Aarti Yadav.
To sum it up, an unrelated video was shared as the visuals showing the last rites of Aarti Yadav.