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.
At the trust executive committee meeting on 6 July, Champat Rai and Anil Mishra will be called to present their side, and a final decision will be taken on their resignations. trust meeting on resignations communal religion not checked —
The temple's MoU with State Bank of India for counting offerings — requiring joint presence of trust and bank officials, a dress code, and monthly rotation of bank staff — was not being followed on any condition. SBI MoU violations communal religion not checked —
Wireless department officer Arjun Dev had monitored the Ram Mandir CCTV cameras since 2009 — 17 years without transfer — and multiple transfer orders for him were repeatedly withdrawn, allegedly because Champat Rai blocked them. blocked officer transfers communal religion not checked —
On 5 June police recovered ₹5 lakh in cash from the house of offerings-counter Avinash Shukla, yet Champat Rai filed no FIR, and three days later on 8 June he told the media no theft of offerings had happened. FIR not filed communal religion not checked —
Even after theft was caught 70 times on three CCTV cameras between 27 April and 5 June, Champat Rai kept denying that any theft had occurred. theft denial communal religion not checked —
One week of hidden-camera recordings showed that employees stealing offerings would stand in front of the CCTV cameras during counting to block the view. CCTV concealment communal religion not checked —
According to the SIT investigation and the channel's findings, Champat Rai had known about the offerings theft for many months. prior knowledge of theft communal religion not checked —
No case has been registered against Champat Rai so far, nor have any official charges been made against him. no charges filed communal religion not checked —
Ram Mandir chief priest Mahant Satyendra Das, before his death, publicly questioned Champat Rai's functioning in November 2022, naming Tinnu Yadav, Gopal Rao, Anil Mishra and Champat Rai as acting like 'owners' of the temple. priest's allegations communal religion not checked —
₹4 crore was spent on guest house maintenance in just 11 months, and all this expenditure happened under Champat Rai's supervision. guest house expenditure communal religion not checked —
According to the temple trust, ₹152 crore was spent on temple complex construction between 1 April 2025 and 28 February 2026, including ₹87 crore on the boundary wall alone. construction spending communal religion not checked —
The ₹80 lakh recovered in the case is money stolen from temple offerings. stolen offerings recovery communal religion accurate 80.0%
400 private security guards worked at the temple on monthly salaries of ₹19,000–24,000, and most of them were relatives or acquaintances of Champat Rai's close associates, hired on his recommendation. security hiring nepotism communal religion accurate 60.0%
Champat Rai was appointed general secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust on 19 February 2020, and no term limit was ever fixed for him or other trust members. trust term limits communal religion accurate 85.0%
Champat Rai was born in 1946 in Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, worked as a college professor, and was jailed during the 1975 Emergency for his RSS association. Champat Rai profile communal religion accurate 97.0%
In the Ram Mandir offerings theft case, only low-level employees ('small fish') have been arrested so far. Ram Mandir offerings theft communal religion accurate 80.0%
In 1990, Islamic terrorists acting at Pakistan's behest were taking over the Kashmir valley, seizing the homes and property of Kashmiri Hindu Pandits and killing those who refused to leave, as in nurse Sarla Bhatt's abduction and murder, for which a 737-page chargesheet naming Yasin Malik and four others was filed only after 36 years. Kashmiri Pandit exodus pakistan security not checked —
During a two-day anti-encroachment bulldozer drive in Rajkot, Gujarat on 23–24 February, officials spent ₹27 lakh on tea and snacks, including over 21,000 cups of tea and hundreds of plates of snacks. Rajkot tea expenses governance economy not checked —
In the Delhi health scam, the Central Procurement Agency bought portable X-ray machines worth ₹1 lakh for ₹33 lakh each, spending ₹148 crore on 448 machines that should have cost ₹45 crore, and DGHS chief Dr. Vatsala Agrawal and accounts officer Neeraj Chopra have been arrested. X-ray machine overpricing healthcare not checked —
When Sabarimala's gold-clad dwarapalaka idols were sent to Chennai in 2019, official records described them merely as copper plates, and investigators allege the heavy old gold layers were stolen and replaced with thinner new plating. idol gold swap communal religion not checked —
In 1998–99, industrialist Vijay Mallya donated a total of 30.291 kilograms of gold to the Sabarimala temple, which was used for gold-plating parts of the temple. Mallya gold donation communal religion not checked —
According to temple trust sources, daily offerings at the Ram Mandir have risen from ₹10–12 lakh per day earlier to ₹20–24 lakh per day now, so claims that devotee numbers have fallen after the theft are wrong. temple offerings rise communal religion not checked —
The day before the disputed structure was demolished in 1992, L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Brahmadutt Dwivedi held a meeting at trust member Anil Mishra's house. 1992 demolition meeting communal religion not checked —
In the 2021 land dispute, the temple trust was accused of buying land worth ₹2 crore from Ravi Mohan Tiwari and Sultan Ansari for ₹18 crore, and Ravi Mohan Tiwari is related by marriage to former Ayodhya mayor Rishikesh Upadhyay. land purchase scandal communal religion not checked —
At the trust executive committee meeting on 6 July, Champat Rai and Anil Mishra will be called to present their side and a final decision will be taken on their resignations. trust meeting resignations communal religion not checked —