Fact Check: Was a terrorist disguised as a monk really caught in the Maha Kumbh Mela? Know the truth of viral claim

New Delhi: Every day lakhs of people are taking a dip of faith in the Mahakumbh held in Prayagraj. On the day of Shahi Snan, this number reaches crores. Special care is also being taken for security in this Maha Kumbh Mela which lasts for 45 days. However, meanwhile, a claim along with a picture of two policemen and a sadhu is going viral on social media that a terrorist named Ayub Khan, who had come from the Kumbh Mela in the guise of a sadhu, has been arrested. Let us know how much truth is there in this claim viral on social media.

What are the claims of the users?

On Facebook, a user named अंजी कैम्मरचेदु shared the picture of a sadhu caught by the police and wrote, ‘A terrorist named Ayub Khan came in the guise of a sadhu in the Kumbh Mela being held in Uttar Pradesh. Mixing with our monks. By the grace of God, our police caught him/her after conspiring to commit the biggest evil deed.


While sharing the same picture, a Facebook user named Rajnikanth Pushpala wrote that a terrorist named Mahakumbh Ayub has been arrested. Who had come to Mahakumbh as a saint.

What is the truth of the viral claim?

When Sajjag’s team investigated the claim made in the social media post, the claim turned out to be completely fake. First of all, the name given in the Facebook post of Sajag’s team was searched on Google. Got a report from presswire18 TimesIn which it was told that a suspicious person has been arrested from the camp of Yati Narasimhanand Saraswati in the Maha Kumbh Mela. When interrogated, he/she first told his/her name as Ayush, but when the police interrogated him/her strictly, he/she revealed his/her name as Ayub.

After that the alert team Received a report from Live HindustanIn which it was told that a suspicious person has been arrested from the camp of Yeti Narasimhanand Saraswati. When interrogated, he/she first told his/her name as Ayush, but when the police interrogated him/her strictly, he/she revealed his/her name as Ayub. Ayub is a drug addict and has no criminal record. There is no evidence that he/she was planning to commit any terrorist activity.

From this it became clear that no terrorist has been caught from Mahakumbh. Now the question was where did this picture come from? When Sajjag’s team reverse imaged the viral picture, this picture was also found on Google and many other pictures related to it were also found. In which the picture of police and sadhu kept changing. In such a situation, when Sajjag’s team checked the viral picture with AI tool, it was found that the viral picture was created with AI.

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conclusion: The claim of capturing a terrorist named Ayub Khan, who came in the guise of a sadhu in Mahakumbh, is completely fake. Vigilant’s investigation revealed that Ayub Khan, who has been arrested, has no criminal record.