Satyameter Evidence-linked accuracy tracking for Indian TV news

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Anjana Om Kashyap

Aaj Tak Black and White Hindi
93.3% claim accuracy
How accuracy is measuredAccuracy = accurate ÷ (accurate + inaccurate + misleading), over verdicts with confidence ≥ 0.7. Unverifiable claims are excluded from the denominator.
0 100 93.3%

95% confidence interval 86–97%

Why we rank by the confidence boundWe rank by the lower bound of this interval, not raw accuracy. A small sample yields a wide interval and a low bound — so anchors earn their rank by being checked more, not by looking good on a handful of claims.
. 89 checked of 700 checkable · 789 extracted.

Scrutiny
What scrutiny meansN checked of M checkable — the share of this anchor's checkable claims that have actually been fact-checked. High accuracy over low scrutiny is a provisional reading, not a verdict on the anchor.
 89/700

Verdict mix

125 of 789 extracted claims checked

125 of 789 extracted claims checked.

Coverage profile

Share of extracted claims by topic — click to drill in
crime 28% communal religion 17% international 15% governance economy 13% healthcare 8% pakistan security 5% environment 4% infrastructure transport 3% other 3% science tech 2% opposition attack 1% agriculture rural 0% education 0% entertainment sports 0%

Who is held responsible
How framing is measuredThe framing target of each claim — the party the anchor assigns responsibility to. Blaming the people involved frames differently from blaming the system that enabled the issue. Counted, not judged. Click a bar to read those claims.

Framing of blame across all extracted claims · click a bar to read them
This anchor most often points at Individuals 258 claims →
Individuals 258 System & institutions 145 Government 34 Opposition 18 A minority community 3 Foreign actor 48 Media 8

Flagged claims

Judged inaccurate or misleading in the checked sample

Episodes analysed

54 broadcasts

All claims & verdicts

789 claims
Claims from this anchor, newest first.
ClaimTopicVerdictConf.
The police investigation remains limited to a few employees even though the SIT report has raised questions about Champat Rai and Anil Mishra, suggesting they are being given special leniency. investigation leniency crime not checked —
Among the arrested accused, Ramashankar alias Tinnu Yadav and Manish Yadav were close to Champat Rai, while Lavkush Mishra and Anukalp Mishra are relatives of Anil Mishra. accused-trust connections crime not checked —
Trust office-bearers Champat Rai and Anil Mishra have resigned from their posts and been questioned by police, but despite their suspicious role no legal action has been taken against them. trust officials leniency crime not checked —
More than 15 countries have their own versions of the Ramayana and about 2,000 temples worldwide are dedicated to Lord Ram, yet no country has a controversy over temple offerings like the one in India. global Ram temples contrast communal religion not checked —
Police are not bringing the accused out of jail and are producing them in court via video conferencing, largely because the people of Ayodhya are extremely angry with them. public anger at accused crime not checked —
In several countries around the world, people who betrayed public trust have been made to apologize to the nation on television to restore public trust. televised public apology international not checked —
Legally, if no lawyer is available the court will appoint one through the Legal Services Authority; in past cases where lawyers boycotted the accused — such as 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab and the Delhi Nirbhaya gang-rape case — the accused still received legal aid. legal aid precedent crime not checked —
The Ayodhya Bar Association has announced that no lawyer will represent the accused, and any lawyer who does will be fined ₹5 lakh. lawyer boycott of accused crime not checked —
After these events, many people across the country are debating whether they should stop donating cash and jewellery to temples and instead donate fruits or help the poor. temple donation debate communal religion not checked —
Although the theft was detected on 5 June and cash was recovered on video, no FIR was registered at that time. delayed FIR crime not checked —
A new revelation today: accused Avinash Shukla stole from the temple offerings on 5 June, and after police obtained CCTV footage of the theft, they recovered lakhs of rupees in cash from his house. CCTV theft evidence crime not checked —
In Uttar Pradesh, known for 'bulldozer justice', no bulldozer action has been taken in this case and the house allegedly built with stolen offerings still stands. bulldozer justice inaction governance economy not checked —
The theft of temple offerings was organized, and the stolen money was used to buy land, shops, expensive cars, and expensive phones. organized theft ring crime not checked —
Lavkush Mishra's brother-in-law Anukalp Mishra worked at the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, and their close relative Anil Mishra is one of the Trust's 15 members. trust insider nexus crime not checked —
Official tehsildar court land records dated 6 March 2026 show the final mutation order for the land in the name of Supriya Mishra, wife of Lavkush Mishra of Meenapur. land records evidence crime not checked —
Lavkush Mishra, who counted the donation-box offerings at the Ram temple, bought this land in his wife Supriya Mishra's name for a total of ₹8,80,000. benami land purchase crime not checked —
People with salaries of only ₹15,000-20,000 were buying large plots of land and building big mansions, allegedly funded by stolen temple offerings. disproportionate assets crime not checked —
A mansion on the Ayodhya-Lucknow highway in Sohawal tehsil is being built with money from the theft of ₹80 crore in temple donations. assets from stolen funds crime not checked —
The offerings made at the Ram Mandir — the temple for which kar sevaks gave their lives — were stolen. temple offering theft crime not checked —
The Kothari brothers from Kolkata were shot dead by Uttar Pradesh police on 2 November 1990 because they were kar sevaks marching to the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya. kar sevak killings 1990 communal religion not checked —
Action in the Bengaluru daycare case may be taken under Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act, which for childcare institutions provides for 5 to 10 years' imprisonment and a fine. juvenile justice law crime not checked —
Police have named five women caregivers as accused in the Bengaluru daycare case, and Bengaluru police have said they will now inspect the functioning of daycare centres across the city. daycare abuse arrests crime not checked —
At a daycare centre on the Capgemini campus in Bengaluru, toddlers were allegedly tortured — locked in dark rooms and bathrooms, put inside a front-loading washing machine, and sprayed on the face with water jets on toilet seats. daycare child abuse crime not checked —
Because of the police's careless paperwork, murder accused Sonam Raghuvanshi was granted bail just 10 months after her arrest. bail from police lapses crime not checked —
In the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case, Meghalaya police documents absurdly described accused Sonam Raghuvanshi as a suspected army deserter and repeatedly cited a non-existent legal section '4031', and the Meghalaya High Court rejected the state's appeal against her bail. Raghuvanshi case paperwork crime not checked —