Claim: A recent news clipping reporting the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl at a temple on the pretext of Kanya Puja.
Fact-check: 3-year-old news clipping on rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl on the pretext of Kanya Puja is shared as a recent incident - FACTLY
Verdict: the newspaper clipping shared in the post is at least three years old. the incident took place in 2019 in sector 14 of panchkula city in haryana. on the pretext of performing kanya puja, the accused lakhpat took the 5-year-old girl to a secluded place, molested her and threw the dead body in a forest after crushing her head with a big stone. the accused was a labourer and the incident did not take place inside a temple. hence, the claim made in the post is misleading.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Dilip Kumar Sripada
Date published: 2022-10-07T06:35:44