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Fact Check: Video of BJP Workers Pelting Stone In Telangana is falsely shared as from West Bengal

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The video showing BJP workers pelting stone is from Telangana and not West Bengal, where BJP workers attacked the house of Warangal TRS MLA Challa Dharma Reddy on January 31 against his remarks on the Ayodhya Ram Mandir donation drive. This incident has nothing to do with West Bengal

A claim about Congress leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot is being widely circulated on social media platforms claiming that Pilot was among those who wrote a letter to the President to stop the execution of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon.

A Facebook user shared the image with a caption in Hindi that can be roughly translated to, "Only in the name of caste can I not support someone who advocates lowly and terrorists. Nor should my Gurjar society support Sachin Pilot, it is not wise to support anyone in the name of caste. There is no bigger example of stupidity other than this. 

Several other Facebook and Twitter users are sharing posts making a similar claim. 

The truth behind the claim 

In our investigation, we found this claim to be false. Sachin Pilot did not write any such letter to the President to stop the life sentence of Yakub Memon. 

With the help of relevant keyword search, we found an article published by 'The Hindu' according to which, a group of eminent jurists, MPs, leaders of political parties, and eminent individuals from different walks of life submitted a petition to President Pranab Mukherjee in 2015 to request him to consider the mercy plea against the execution of the death sentence of Yakub Memon.

As per reports, the 15-page petition submitted to the President included around 300 eminent people who claimed there were "substantive and fresh grounds" to give reprieve to Yakub. All of these names are present in "The Hindu" report and Sachin Pilot's name cannot be found in it.

This letter was also published in the "Huff Post" report and also on a website related to legal matters "Advocatetanmoy". The name of Sachin Pilot cannot be found in this report as well. 

In conclusion, the viral claim that Congress leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot wrote a letter in 2015 to the President to consider the mercy plea against the execution of the death sentence of Yakub Memon is false.

 

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