Satyameter Evidence-linked accuracy tracking for Indian TV news

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Rajat Sharma

India TV Aaj Ki Baat Hindi
81.2% 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 81.3%

95% confidence interval 70–89%

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.
. 64 checked of 291 checkable · 350 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.
 64/291

Verdict mix

108 of 376 extracted claims checked

108 of 376 extracted claims checked.

Coverage profile

Share of extracted claims by topic — click to drill in
communal religion 29% governance economy 24% crime 16% international 11% opposition attack 9% pakistan security 4% education 4% infrastructure transport 1% entertainment sports 1% science tech 1% environment 0% other 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 121 claims →
Individuals 121 System & institutions 27 Government 4 Opposition 80 A minority community 5 Foreign actor 37 Media 1

Flagged claims

Judged inaccurate or misleading in the checked sample

Episodes analysed

15 broadcasts

All claims & verdicts

376 claims
Claims from this anchor, newest first.
ClaimTopicVerdictConf.
The bank had an inkling of the theft; SBI had advised three months earlier that the counting staff be changed and had begun the process, but Champat Rai and Anil Mishra opposed it and no one was removed. ignored bank warning crime accurate 80.0%
Six of the eight arrested accused were on SBI's payroll, and police suspect that SBI employees Gagandeep and Ritesh Chaturvedi helped the six accused, putting both of them on the police radar. SBI staff involvement crime accurate 90.0%
All the accused were produced today before the anti-corruption court via video conferencing, and since police did not seek remand, the court sent all of them to judicial custody for 14 days. judicial custody crime accurate 95.0%
Anukalp Mishra, Lavkush Mishra, Avinash Shukla, Karunesh Pandey and Ramashankar Mishra were all put on cash-counting duty on Anil Mishra's recommendation, and SBI employees assigned there were even tenants in Anil Mishra's house. cronyism in staffing crime accurate 72.0%
Most of the people deployed in counting the offerings were appointed on Anil Mishra's recommendation, and Anil Mishra is also accused of amassing assets disproportionate to his income. counting staff appointments crime accurate 85.0%
For one and a half years the RSS top leadership had been asking Champat Rai to appoint professionals and build a system, but he kept stalling and blocked a finalized CEO appointment by claiming Nanaji Deshmukh had once vetoed that person's appointment in Chitrakoot. blocked professionalization communal religion unverifiable 60.0%
Champat Rai turned the Ram Mandir into his personal showroom, allowing no one else in and keeping the locks, keys, accounts, and cleaning all under his own control to maintain his grip on temple management. temple control communal religion not checked —
Instead of taking legal action against those who looted the offerings, Champat Rai started an investigation into how the theft news leaked and which temple employee informed the media. leak investigation crime inaccurate 78.0%
Police requested Champat Rai to immediately file an FIR but he refused, and even after the matter leaked on June 6, he stated on June 7 that no notable irregularity had occurred. FIR refusal crime accurate 70.0%
Champat Rai received evidence of theft from temple offerings on June 4, and on June 5 he personally went to the homes of people seen on CCTV putting bundles of currency notes into their pockets. theft cover-up crime accurate 80.0%
Champat Rai promoted Tinnu Yadav from driving trust vehicles to being his personal driver, then to temple sevadar, entrusting him with supervising the counting of offerings, and Tinnu Yadav also held the keys to the donation boxes. donation box access crime accurate 88.0%
Champat Rai, a Bijnor native, was formerly a chemistry teacher who was jailed during the Emergency, joined the RSS, was sent to work in the VHP when the temple movement began in 1989, and was named an accused by the CBI after the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992. Champat Rai background communal religion misleading 70.0%
When the government announced the Ram Mandir Trust members on February 5, 2020, Champat Rai's name was not on the list, but at the trust's first meeting 14 days later on February 19 he was made General Secretary. trust appointment communal religion accurate 90.0%
Although Mohan Bhagwat did not name Champat Rai, his remarks to RSS volunteers about ego and the Ram Mandir were a warning clearly directed at Champat Rai. Bhagwat warning communal religion not checked —
Police have recorded Champat Rai's statement, are preparing to question Anil Mishra and Gopal Rao, and the eight arrested accused in the case have been sent to jail until July 13. donation theft probe crime accurate 80.0%
The Ram Mandir Trust's quarterly meeting, originally scheduled for July 11, has been moved up to July 6, and in this meeting the resignations of Champat Rai and Anil Mishra will be formally accepted. trust meeting communal religion misleading 80.0%
Champat Rai and Anil Mishra were first asked to resign, and two new names have been finalized as their replacements; the decision has already been made. trust resignations communal religion inaccurate 80.0%
The RSS top leadership has decided that Champat Rai will be removed from the Ram Mandir complex and transferred far away from Ayodhya with a new responsibility. Champat Rai removal communal religion misleading 60.0%
Shortly before the broadcast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke by phone with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who briefed him on the Middle East peace process, and Modi stressed freedom of navigation in international waters. Modi-Pezeshkian call international accurate 95.0%
Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner have reached Doha for Iran-US peace deal talks, but Iran's delegation will only discuss recovering its $6.4 billion held in Qatar and refuses to talk to the US envoys; under the agreed framework both countries must finalize a deal within 60 days. Iran-US Doha talks international accurate 82.0%
The anchor predicts that Rajnath Singh's statement from six months ago — that PoK's people will themselves join India — will soon prove true. PoK accession prediction pakistan security not checked —
A rebellion against Pakistan has erupted across PoK including Rawalakot, Mirpur, Muzaffarabad and Kotli, following the deaths of hundreds of people last month from Pakistani army firing, and the Shehbaz Sharif government has cut supply lines and government rations to suppress the protests. PoK unrest pakistan security misleading 72.0%
In Kutch, Gujarat, authorities removed illegal encroachments from 89 sites on government land, including 27 religious structures, 49 commercial places and 13 other buildings, after claims that they were waqf properties were disproved. waqf encroachment removal communal religion misleading 72.0%
At a Jaipur paramedical exam centre, the college operator took ₹5 lakh per student from 45 students to guarantee passing, organized mass cheating under a tent with projectors, blackboards and teachers; four people were arrested and the exam was cancelled. exam cheating racket education misleading 85.0%
In Bengal, police served a notice at Humayun Kabir's home requiring him to appear at two different police stations within two days over inflammatory speeches he gave on June 8 at Shaktipur and June 26 at Rejinagar, and three organizers of the event have been arrested. inflammatory speech case communal religion accurate 95.0%