Jaffrabad Shooter Was Identified as Shahrukh, Not Anurag Mishra

The man who fired eight rounds in Delhi’s Jaffrabad area on Monday, 24 February was identified as Shahrukh.

(Editor's Note: It was earlier reported by news agency ANI that the man who wielded a gun in Delhi's Jaffrabad on Monday, 24 February, was arrested a day later. But a senior Delhi Police official has now confirmed to The Quint that he has not yet been arrested.)

CLAIM

The photograph of a gun wielding man in Delhi’s Jaffrabad is being circulated on social media with a claim that his real name is not Shahrukh, as reported, but Anurag Mishra. Shahrukh had fired eight rounds in the air on Monday, 24 February.

His pictures from the day of the incident are being shared along with the profile pictures of a user called Anurag Mishra to prove it.

The Quint, too, received multiple queries on its WhatsApp helpline number to verify the claim.

WHAT’S THE TRUTH

The Quint had earlier reported that the man in Jaffrabad was identified as Shahrukh as reported by news agency ANI and was reportedly arrested by Delhi Police on Tuesday, 25 February.

However, a senior Delhi Police official on Thursday, 27 February, told The Quint that the shooter in northeast Delhi’s Jaffrabad has not yet been arrested.

Further, we checked the profile of Anurag D Mishra, whose pictures are being circulated online to claim that he is the Jaffrabad shooter. Mishra, who identifies himself as an actor, took to Facebook to clarify that his pictures are being falsely used to claim that he is the Jaffrabad shooter.

“All the people who are involved in this will face the repercussions and I will take strict action against all of them,” Mishra said. We also compared the pictures of Mishra and Shahrukh to clarify that the two individuals aren’t the same.

Earlier, the picture of the shooter was compared to another man who could be seen standing behind BJP’s Kapil Mishra, who had visited Maujpur on Sunday. The Quint had debunked this claim too.

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