BY VANSH SHAH


Asad, the son of slain gangster Atiq Ahmed, and Ghulam, one of Asad’s associates, were killed in encounter with UP Police on Thursday, April 13, 2023, in Jhansi. The two were wanted in connection with the February 24 murder of Umesh Pal. Atiq Ahmed, a history-sheeter with more than 100 complaints against him, and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were shot dead on live TV on Saturday, April 15, 2023.

Against this backdrop, several social media users have shared a photograph of Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav amid a crowd of people and claimed that two persons at the far right of the photograph are the murderers of Atiq Ahmed. Thus, they suggested that Atiq and Ashraf’s murders were supporters of Akhilesh Yadav and that Akhilesh was to be blamed for the murders.

Twitter handle @socialninzaa shared the image with a caption that said ”Breaking news the both the killers have been identified, they both belongs from Samajwadi party. As per reports #AtiqueAhmed and his brother know many black things about samajwadi party. Akhilesh yadav with help of his party people killed him. Now we know who is real killer.” (sic) (Archive)

The tweet has over 9 lakh views and this conspiracy theory has gone viral.


https://twitter.com/bhairav_hara/status/1647454799192002560?s=46

A digital media organization called Indus Scrolls published a full-fledged report on this incident with the headline saying the photo was crucial evidence of Akhilesh Yadav’s role in the murder.

Fact Check

By reverse-searching the image on Google, Alt News came across a Tweet from Akhilesh Yadav. He shared some pictures of his visit to Madhya Pradesh on April 13, 2023. The viral picture is among those.

https://twitter.com/yadavakhilesh/status/1646511366143090688?s=46

By taking a cue from this, we performed a keyword search and found out more about his visit. We came across reports from Dainik Bhaskar and ABP News, that had significant details. The headline of the Bhaskar report said, ”While going to Khargone, Akhilesh Yadav said — We have a long relationship with Subhash Yadav’s family”.

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