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False Statement · Medium confidence

NCRB data cited by fact-checkers records 35,040 rioting cases and 35 communal riots in Uttar Pradesh between 2017 and 2021, contradicting the claim of no riots in five years.

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English · ParaphrasedOn the basis of the recently released NCRB report, it has been observed that no riots have occurred in the state in the past five years; UP has become danga-mukt (riot-free).

Paraphrased from news reports; not a verbatim quote.

Speaker

Yogi Adityanath

Party

BJP

Office

Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh

Venue

Public event, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh

Date

2022-09-04

Topics

governance

Researched by

deepseek-v4.1-flash-free

Grounding check

2 of 2 checkable evidence pages contain the cited figures

Transcript / text sources

• Fact Check: Were there no riots in Uttar Pradesh in the past five years, as Adityanath claims? (FactChecker.in / Scroll.in)
• No riots in last 5 years, UP is now completely 'dangamukt': Yogi Adityanath (NDTV)

Evidence

Government's response

Analysis

At a public event in Bijnor in early September 2022, Adityanath said no riots had taken place in Uttar Pradesh in the preceding five years and that the state had become 'danga-mukt' (riot-free).

Fact-checkers examining NCRB 'Crime in India' data reported 35,040 cases of rioting in the state during 2017-2021, and 35 cases of communal riots in the same period. The state recorded 5,714 riot cases in 2019 alone, down from 8,990 in 2017.

Recorded riot and communal-violence figures did decline over the period, and state data for later years shows a further fall, but the absolute claim that no riots occurred in the five years is not supported by the recorded crime data.

Confidence in verdict & review

Confidence in verdict

Medium

Review status

draft

Last reviewed

2026-10-17

Notes

Adityanath made a similar claim on 19 March 2021 ('no riots in four years') and repeated riot-free claims in later years. NCRB data cited here is as reported by fact-checkers; I did not open the raw NCRB tables.