CLAIM AND CLAIMEE

यूपी के गोंडा में हिंदु महिला नीरू गौतम ने कांग्रेस नेता गफूर खान को अपना भाई माना था और राखी तक पहनाई 27aug Monday… https://t.co/JgqeSTcuIx — कोमल (@komal44337466) 1535475591000

यूपी के गोंडा में हिंदु महिला नीरू गौतम ने कांग्रेस नेता गफूर खान को अपना भाई माना था और राखी बांधी 27 अगस्त सोम… https://t.co/LFK42wjBk9 — sambit swaraj 2 (@sambitswaraj2) 1535530928000

यूपी के गोंडा से समाचार प्राप्त हुआ है कि एक हिंदु अनुसूचित बहन नीरू गौतम ने कांग्रेस नेता गफूरखान को अपना भाई माना… https://t.co/fOXB6mVE0t — सत्य प्रकाश तिवारी🚩जय श्रीराम🚩आरएसएस संघ सेवक🚩 (@tiwarisatyapra4) 1535529975000

VERIFICATION

@sanjiv809026 @komal44337466 @Uppolice https://t.co/mCYuhsEXTw — Gonda Police (@gondapolice) 1535537635000

METHODOLOGY

Gonda Police tweeted another clarification, this time mentioning TOI, for helping to find the original photo used along with the fake claim.

उपरोक्त वायरल पोस्ट में शामिल की गई फोटो दिनांक 21 नवंबर 2016 कानपुर उत्तर प्रदेश में हुई ट्रेन दुर्घटना में घायल म… https://t.co/9XHFFVsUgJ — Gonda Police (@gondapolice) 1535533820000

VERDICT

Many Twitter users and Facebook users have been sharing two photos - one that shows a Hindu woman tying a rakhi to a Muslim man, and the other that shows a woman admitted to a hospital with visible, severe injuries.The claim these social media users are making is that the man seen in the photo not only raped the woman but also brutally thrashed her and fled the scene. One of the tweets say that the man in question -- Gafur Khan -- is a local Congress leader from Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda and the woman’s name is Niru Gautam.These two photos have gone viral on social media with a lot of users believing the claim. It should also be noted that the content used in these stories are more or less the same.Times Fact-Check team contacted the Gonda Police and they have now issued an official statement denying the claim and deeming it fake.Times Fact-Check team also found out that the image of the woman tying the man a rakhi first appeared in 2017, as an image that promotes communal harmony, and had been doing rounds on social media since then. People seen in the photo, however, could not be identified. Basic reverse-image search was used to figure this out.The photo of the injured woman that has been shared with this fake claim has been found out to be from the Associated Press , clicked by Rajesh Kumar Singh, and is of a woman who suffered severe injuries when 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train she was travelling in rolled off the track in Uttar Pradesh, in 2016.Times Fact-Check team found the news to be fake.