No, This Video Doesn't Show Police Arresting Samay Raina and Ranveer Allahbadia
A video showing police charging at people has gone viral to claim that it shows comedian Samay Raina and podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia being taken into custody from their residence.
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The claim comes after a controversy arose regarding alleged inappropriate remarks by Allahbadia during the show India’s Got Latent, which is hosted by Raina.
An archive of the post can be found here.
(Source: Instagram)
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Is the claim true?: The claim is false.
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The video is old from 2023 and shows a fight over parking space in a Greater Noida housing complex.
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The Supreme Court provided Allahbadia with arrest protection, whereas the Maharashtra Cyber Cell rejected Raina’s petition to give his statement remotely. There are no reports confirming their arrest at home.
What we found: At first, we checked about the updates in the cases filed against Allahbadia and Raina.
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The SC granted the podcaster an interim protection from arrest order against all First Information Reports (FIR) filed against him in various states, reported the Times of India.
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As for Raina, the Maharastra Cyber Cell rejected his plea to record his statement via a video call, as the comedian is in the United States of America (USA) till 17 March, reported the Economic Times.
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There were no reports which suggested that the two were arrested from their homes.
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We, then, checked the video footage by dividing it into multiple screenshots and running a Google reverse image search on some of them.
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The reverse image search results led us to a report by the Times of India from August 2023, where the cover video matched the frames of the viral clip.
The report mentioned that the visuals were from Greater Noida.
(Source: TOI/Screenshot)
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As per the report, a fight broke out between two groups over parking space in a Greater Noida society. The fight escalated and the police registered a case against two individuals for allegedly disturbing official work.
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Similarly, NDTV and India Today also reported on the incident in August 2023. They noted that the police were investigating the case.
Conclusion: A false claim has gone viral that the video shows police arresting Allahbadia and Raina.
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SP has ended contract with I-PAC due to fund constraints: Akhilesh Yadav
Lucknow (PTI): Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said his party has severed its association with the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) due to a lack of funds.
He dismissed speculations that the termination of contract was because of recent election results.
Addressing a press conference here, Yadav said the party had engaged I-PAC for a brief period ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections but could not continue the arrangement.
"Yes, we had an association. They worked with us for a few months, but we are not able to continue because we do not have that kind of funding," he said.
The I-PAC is a political consultancy firm known for managing major election campaigns across the country.
Election strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor has also been associated with the organisation in the past and has worked with multiple parties, including the BJP and the Congress.
In a lighter vein, Yadav took a swipe at the ecosystem of political consultancies. "We thought that if we have to work with a 'winning agency', then there are several big companies."
He said that some people suggested conducting surveys, hiring another firm, keeping a social media company, and even engaging agencies for negative campaigning against other parties.
"There are one or two more companies whose names are not yet known. I can get those for you as well," Yadav said.
Yadav rejected the suggestion that the decision to end the deal was influenced by recent election outcomes in states such as West Bengal.
"There is no such thing. Do not ask questions based on baseless reports. That is not true," he said.
"This is not the reason for ending the agreement. We simply do not have enough funds. If you (the media) give us funds, we can hire another company," the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said.
