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On 4th Jan, ASI Shambhu Dayal was stabbed multiple times with knife by an accused in Delhi's Mayapuri area. He was admitted to hospital after being stabbed on neck, chest, stomach & back. On 8th, ASI Shambhu Dayal succumbled to his injuries. Thread 👇👇

Sudarshan News, a pro-BJP propaganda outlet, tweeted a clip of its broadcast on January 8, where the anchor reading the news refers to the accused as “Jihadi Mohammad Anish” multiple times.

Spokesperson of VHP @vinod_bansal, Sudarshan Reporter @MaheshKumarSTV & @KumaarSaagar, BJP spokesperson
@SharmaKhemchand shared the report with the same misleading claim the the accused is a "Jihadi" / 'Mohammed Anees'.

It was tweeted by ANI reporter as 'Mohammed Anees'.

Times Now Navbharat @TNNavbharat also mentioned in it multiple times that a suspect named 'Mohammad Anis' stabbed ASI Shambhu Dayal. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

An @aajtak broadcast was tweeted by Sanjay Singh. In this broadcast, the host, Sayeed Ansari, calls the suspect ‘Mohammad Anis’.

Even @ndtv in its MisReport on January 10 named the suspect as 'Mohammad Anish'.

Alt News accessed a press release issued by the Delhi Police via WhatsApp on January 4 i.e., on the day of the incident. As per the press release, the accused is Anish, the son of Prahlad Raj.

In a news report by The Indian Express published on January 9, the suspect is identified as Mayapuri resident Anish Raj (24).

Additionally, @AltNews spoke with the station in-charge of Mayapuri West. He confirmed that the accused was not a Muslim and there was no communal angle to the incident. @DelhiPolice @DCPWestDelhi

To sum it up, the incident of an officer being stabbed in Mayapuri was misreported by a number of media houses as they got the name of the accused wrong. Sudarshan News and its journalists communalized the crime by describing the accused as a ‘jihadi’.
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