Fact check: Viral post claims Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘savage’ reply is fake

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal cited a false claim that he questioned Solicitor General Suryaprakash V. V Raju, sarcastically asked him if he would arrest Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah if he did so. Just say that he paid them Rs 100 crore. BOOM has discovered that the viral exchange between Kejriwal and ASG SV Raju did not take place in a Delhi court as claimed on social media.

Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 21, 2024 in connection with the liquor policy case. On March 28, Kejriwal appeared in person at the Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi. The agency’s custody of him was about to end, and the Delhi High Court had refused to grant interim relief the previous day. Addressing the court, Kejriwal detailed several incidents related to the case and claimed there was a “political conspiracy” behind his arrest and questioned whether the education ministry had enough grounds to register a case against him without registering a case. Arrest the current chief minister. CBI Special Judge Kaveri Baweja granted Kejriwal four-day remand custody to the Education Ministry, which will end on April 1.

The viral exchange was posted by AAP Ka Mehta (@DaaruBaazMehta) on I said I gave 1 billion rupees to Modi and Amit Shah, will you arrest them based on my statement? The judge and Abu Sayyaf remained silent”

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The same myth is made about other X controllers.

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BOOM has found that a court conversation that went viral online claiming that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asked Solicitor General Raju if he claimed to have asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have paid Rs 100 crore, will he arrest them. Following the suggestion from the responses that no exchange had occurred, we conducted a keyword search and found no news media reports of such an exchange, nor any reliable media reports confirming this.

BOOM subsequently contacted Newslaundry reporter Tanishka Sodhi, who covered the court proceedings. Sodhi confirmed that the virus exchange was fake. Soddy said: “There were several reporters in the courtroom and there was no way we could have captured everything but this one – so, yes, it’s definitely false. Maybe it started as a joke, but I’m pushing I saw a lot of people actually buying it.” Press Trust of India reporter Awais Usmani confirmed to BOOM that the viral tweet was incorrect and that nothing similar had happened. . Other journalists who attended the hearing, including Moneycontrol’s Thyagarajan Narendran and the BBC’s Umang Poddar, tweeted that the deal did not happen.

I was in court but this never happened https://t.co/O6zescvcSE

— Thyagarajan Narendran (@thyagarajan_law) March 28, 2024

This exchange never happened. https://t.co/WmDXYAwtNz

— Umang Pod (@UmangPod) March 28, 2024

The full 39-minute hearing can be read in Newslaundry’s article, which details the arguments made during the hearing and Kejriwal’s statements during his speech.

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