Chikmagalur, August 28: A body was found in the Bhadra river near Kudremukh in Kalasa hobli on Monday and the local police identified the person as Nawaz (30), who was killed by his wife’s lover in an illicit affair in Bengaluru recently.

Local people who noticed the body of an unidentified person at Echalu stream in the Kudremukh police station limit on Monday informed the police. Under the guidance of circle inspector Ramachandra, diver Bhaskar fished out the body and the police started their investigation to identify the person.

A murder case was registered around a week ago at Peenya in Bengaluru and the police have arrested the accused who said that the body was dumped in the river near Kudremukh. As a body was found in the river near Kudremukh, the local police informed the Bengaluru Varthur police who brought the accused to Kudremukh to identify the body. The police have confirmed that it was body of Nawaz.

Murder due to illicit affair

Both Aysha and Nawaz got married second time after divorce in their earlier marriages. After their second marriage, they have been living in a rented house in Peenya. Meanwhile, Aysha was  introduced to Shivakumar recently and it turned into love later, it is said.

In the beginning, Shivakumar did not know that Aysha was married. But after knowing that she was married, Shivakumar wanted to get her by any means. To fulfill his desire of getting Aysha, he planned a plot to kill Aysha’s husband. To execute his plan, he took the help of his friends and called Nawaz for a vehicle on rent on August 20. Informing his wife, Nawaz went out for a trip. But Shivakumar and his friends who called Nawaz under the guise of taking a vehicle on rent, assaulted Nawaz with lethal weapons and slit his throat. After killing him, Shivakumar and his friends took his body to Kudremukh in a car and dumped it into Bhadra river and left, it is said.

When her husband did not turn up, Aysha called him over his mobile phone. But his phone was switched off due to which she has lodged a complaint at Varthur police station. Two days later, Nawaz parents also lodged a complaint. Following the complaints, police checked the call details of Nawaz. During investigation, the police trapped Pawan, one of the friends of Shivakumar, and he spilled the beans. Later, the police arrested the main accused Shivakumar and confirmed that they have dumped the body in the Bhadra river.

Before the Bengaluru police reaching the spot with the accused, the local police have found the body. On Tuesday morning, the Bengaluru police reached Kudremukh with the accused and confirmed that it was Nawaz body.

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A photo of a white and blue train in the middle of snow-covered mountains and tall trees is going viral on social media. Those sharing it claimed that this breathtaking view was from the Kashmir Valley and that this train was a Vande Bharat.

Sharing the photo on Facebook, one person wrote, "This photograph is not from Switzerland. It's from our beautiful India. The view of the Vande Bharat train traveling through the snow-covered valleys of Kashmir is truly breathtaking".

India Today Fact Check found that this photo is not real and likely made using Twitter’s Grok AI chatbot. However, the Vande Bharat Express will soon be launched in Kashmir.

OUR PROBE

We noticed a few inconsistencies in the viral photo. Being an electric train, Vande Bharat Express trains have high-rise pantographs that collect power from overhead electric wires running over the tracks. However, the pantographs are missing in the viral photo, and the electric wires are running on the side of the train instead of being overhead.

We also observed the word “GROK” written at the bottom-right corner of the viral picture. Grok is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, a company founded by Elon Musk. Among other use cases, the chatbot is commonly used by X users for generating images that bear its watermark. It is thus likely that this photo was created using Grok AI.

Reverse searching the viral photo, we found a Facebook post dated December 28, 2024. It contained the viral photo, along with other similar photos of trains running in the snowy landscape. The caption stated that these photos were AI-generated.

We also ran the viral photo through various AI detection tools such as Hive Moderation and Is it AI. Their results also stated that there was substantial evidence of generative AI being used to create the photo.

 

It is noteworthy that the Indian Railways is planning to introduce a new Vande Bharat Express train that will operate between Katra and Srinagar railway stations, making it the first semi-high-speed train to run in the Kashmir Valley. The train is currently undergoing trials and is expected to be launched after January 20, 2025. It is said to have additional features, such as advanced heating systems, so that it can operate smoothly in extreme weather conditions.

Thus, it is more than clear that the viral photo making the rounds on social media was AI-generated.