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This story is from December 11, 2019

FAKE ALERT: No, the woman giving a speech on cows is not Hyderabad rape victim

A Twitter user by the name of Shailen Pratap shared a video of a woman delivering a speech along with a claim that it is an old video of the Hyderbad gangrape victim addressing the issue of cow slaughter.
FAKE ALERT: No, the woman giving a speech on cows is not Hyderabad rape victim
Key Highlights
  • A Twitter user shared a video of a woman delivering a speech along with a claim that it is an old video of the Hyderbad gangrape victim addressing the issue of cow slaughter.
  • He also claimed that there were eight rapists involved in raping and murdering the 26-year-old veterinary doctor.
  • Times Fact Check has found these claims to be false.
CLAIM
A Twitter user by the name of Shailen Pratap shared a video of a woman delivering a speech along with a claim that it is an old video of the Hyderbad gangrape victim addressing the issue of cow slaughter.
Pratap also claimed that there were eight rapists involved in raping and murdering the 26-year-old veterinary doctor, out of which four were let-off by police at behest of a “well known politician” who plotted the entire rape and murder.

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Here’s the archived link of tweet.
One of our readers tagged us on Twitter wanting to know if the claims were true.
TRUTH
The women seen in the video is not Hyderabad rape victim but a well known dairy enterprenuer named Allola Divya Reddy. The victim was not a cow vigilante as being insinuated. There is no public record or a news report that says there were eight rapists. Police arrested (and later shot) only four men.
VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGY

In the replies to Pratap’s tweet, we found a tweet by a user who goes by the name Uday Kumar who said that the woman in the video was not Hyderabad rape victim. He stated that the woman seen in the video was Divya Reddy, owner of Klimom (Indian cow milk and more).
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Kumar also shared a gallery from Klimom’s official website, where the same woman delivering speech in the viral video above, can be seen in many frames.
Taking a cue from the information above, we used keywords ‘Divya Reddy Klimom’ on YouTube and found a video uploaded by official channel of Klimom on June 2, 2018, which had the same visuals as the one in the video shared by Pratap.

Allola Divya Reddy | National Gopal Ratna Award 2018 Winner | Desi Gaushala | Klimom


Titled ‘Allola Divya Reddy | National Gopal Ratna Award 2018 Winner | Desi Gaushala | Klimom’, this YouTube video confirms that the woman is indeed Allola Divya Reddy and not the Hyderabad rape victim. We searched for more information on Reddy on Google and found that she is TRS politician Allola Indrakaran Reddy’s daughter-in-law. She is very much alive.
On April 26, 2019, there were news reports about TRS finalizing her name for Nirmal ZP Chairperson.
Hence, it’s now proven that the women seen in the video is Divya Reddy and not Hyderabad rape victim. We cannot disclose the real name of the victim because of a directive from the Supreme Court and our editorial policies that abide by it.
In a previous fact-check, we had successfully established that the Hyderabad rape victim was not a cow vigilante. She was just a veterinary doctor.
We also found a tweet from Hyderabad Police, in reply to Pratap’s tweet, rubbishing claims made by him and warning him against spreading misinformation.

VERDICT
Times Fact Check has found that a video featuring a milk enterprenuer Divya Reddy is being circulated with false claims that it is Hyderbad rape victim delivering speech of cow slaughter.
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