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By Swasti Chatterjee A disturbing video of a group of men sexually assaulting a woman on a bike in Bihar has surfaced on WhatsApp with a false claim that it shows an incident from West Bengal. The captions further give the incident a communal spin and state that the accused are Muslims who attacked a Hindu woman. The video is circulating on WhatsApp with an English caption, "Look how much lenience the dirty demon Mamatha Banergy CM of west Bengal has given to the Muslim bastards who openly harass & assault Hindu women.This is the horrible state of affairs in all states where the useless,antina...
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By Umesh Kumar Ray Patna, BIHAR— “Do you want to work in Pregnancy Job Service?” The person at the other end of the call asked this reporter. The phone number was listed on a Facebook page called All India Pregnant Job Service. For the next two to three minutes, the operator informed this reporter in detail about the job and the huge earnings he could potentially receive. The job required registration to be done, for which a copy of their Aadhar card, a photo and 500 rupees had to be sent. Elaborating on what was on offer, the operator said 5 lakh rupees will be given in advance as soon as the...
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By Umesh Kumar Ray In May of this year, what initially seemed like a golden opportunity turned into a nightmarish ordeal for Mukesh Kumar (name changed) and many others. Mukesh was approached through Telegram with the promise of easy money by simply rating and reviewing hotels on a website that looked similar to AirBnb, the San Francisco-based company for homestays. The catch? These reviews had to be glowing, five-star endorsements. Mukesh took the bait, only to find himself ensnared in a vicious web of deception. Within just four days, he had lost a staggering Rs 8.70 lakhs. “It was the bigge...
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By Umesh Kumar Ray Earlier this year, Urmila Kumari, a resident of Nawada district in Bihar, lost 57,900 rupees to a scam where her fingerprints were cloned. Kumari was able to locate the receiver, who admitted to his crime and promised to return the scammed money, pleading her to not file an FIR. It’s not just Kumari. The Bihar police is tired of frauds through the AePS (Aadhaar Enabled Payment System). In July this year, the Nawada police formed a special investigating team (SIT) to arrest two people and recovered 512 cloned thumb impressions made of plastic- like substances. A scam has been...
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By Archis Chowdhury While making an online address to the Panchayati Raj Parishad of West Bengal on August 12, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that his Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government had opened multiple campuses of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in eastern India, including one in Bihar's Darbhanga. BOOM found this claim to be false; according to a statement by BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Sushil Modi, the central government had found the land proposed by Bihar government to be unsuitable for a new AIIMS campus. This was also co...
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By Shrey Banerjee A disturbing video from 2021 showing a woman being groped and molested in Bihar's Chhapra has surfaced with claims misleadingly linking it to the ghastly incident of Manipur, where two women were paraded naked and one of them allegedly gang-raped. The video shows an incident which occured on May 4, during the ongoing Manipur ethnic clashes; two minority Kuki women were dragged out of their houses and paraded naked reportedly by the majority Meiteis of the region. Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the video after it sparked massive outrage and said that the entire country...
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By Umesh Kumar Ray Nawada/Patna, BIHAR — In February of 2022, a rumour of a middle-aged man winning 20 lakh rupees through a mobile game spread like wildfire in a hamlet with around fifty houses in Bihar. A resident of the village, Rajkumar Manjhi remembers the hue and cry among the villagers. “They said that the man invested a few thousand rupees and won 20 lakh rupees,” he said. The ‘news’ was viral. Everyone in the village dominated by the Musahars, a socially marginalised community, thought they had a shot at changing their fortune. They started looking for that mobile game. It was a golde...
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By Hazel Gandhi Social media posts showing old photos of jewellery and cash being recovered from raids by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) have been peddled as items recovered from Lalu Prasad Yadav's properties. BOOM found that the visuals are dated and unrelated to the raid at Lalu Prasad Yadav's house. The ED recovered "proceeds of crime" amounting to Rs 600 crore from the recent raids in Mumbai, Patna, Ranchi, and New Delhi in connection to the alleged land for job scam. Former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and deputy CM of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav are among the people questioned for thei...
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By Umesh Kumar Ray Patna, BIHAR — Twenty-year-old Bikku Paswan, a worker at a saree-cutting factory in Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, was flooded with WhatsApp messages of violent videos of Bihari migrants being beaten up. High school dropout Bikku, who hails from Jamui district of Bihar, had been working in Tamil Nadu for around two years. He told BOOM he had never faced any discrimination or threat there. But the murder of his villager Pawan Yadav followed by a flurry of videos that were forwarded to him on WhatsApp groups left him so panicked that he took the first train out of Tamil Nadu, without ...
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