Claim: UP CM Yogi Adityanath has 138 criminal cases against him.
Fact-check: No, Yogi Adityanath does not have 138 criminal cases against him - FACTLY
Verdict: according to the election affidavits filed for the 2022 up assembly elections, akhilesh yadav has one pending criminal case  and yogi adityanath has none. jayant chaudhary has no criminal cases according to his election affidavit from the general elections in 2019. however, according to the affidavits filed in 2014 and 2017, yogi adityanath had 3 and 4 criminal cases respectively. in 2017, yogi adityanath government had issued orders to withdraw a case against yogi adityanath which was filed in 1995 in pipiganj police station. in 2019, a 20-year-old murder case against yogi adityanath was dismissed by a special court. hence, the claim made in the post is misleading.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Abhishek Mandadi
Date published: 2022-02-16T13:57:09