Image of Yogi Adityanath watching live telecast of the cremation of Hathras rape victim is morphed - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
October 6, 2020
A post with an image that shows chief minister Yogi Adityanath watching a burning incident on a laptop is being widely shared on social media with the claim that he is watching the cremation of Hathras rape victim. Through this article let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Uttar Pradesh CM, Yogi Adityanath is watching the live telecast of the cremation of Hathras rape victim.
Fact: News articles published an image similar to the one in the post in which Yogi can be seen talking to the Hathras victim’s family. This image is digitally morphed so as to look like him watching the cremation of the victim. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
Reverse image search of the photo in the post led us to a news article which carried a similar image like the one in the post. According to the news article, the image is of Yogi Adithyanath speaking to the family of Hathras victim assuring them that stringent action shall be taken against the culprits.  Except for the laptop screen, the rest of the image is same as the one in the post. With this, we can clearly say that the image of Yogi speaking to Hathras victim’s family is morphed so as to look like he is watching the cremation.
Further google image search with the keyword ‘hathras rape victim cremation’ led us to another news article which carried an image similar to the image which can be seen on Yogi’s laptop screen in the post. It is clear that miscreants could have morphed this image with that of Yogi talking to the victim’s family.
To sum it up, image of Yogi Adityanath speaking to Hathras victim’s father is morphed so as to look like he is watching the cremation of the victim.