Ach Ankur Arya, a self-proclaimed spiritual leader and “soldier of Dayanand,” leverages his platform—103K followers on X and over 2 million YouTube subscribers under Satya Sanatan—to push Hindutva propaganda, incite anti-Muslim hate, and promote cow vigilantism.

In June 2024, Arya shared a 14-second video, falsely claiming it showed an 86-year-old Muslim man assaulting a seven-year-old girl in Pakistan. His post, viewed over 1.5 lakh times, pushed a fabricated story tying the clip to Islamic beliefs. However, the video was actually from Zahra’s Blue Eyes, a 2004 Iranian TV series. Despite clear evidence debunking the claim, Arya is known for spreading misinformation. Even after being called out for spreading fake news against Muslims, Arya never deleted the video. 

In February 2023, several right-wing social media users, including Arya, shared a video of a man allegedly beating a child, claiming that the child was Hindu and the attacker was a Muslim neighbor who forced him to say “Allah Pak.” Arya’s tweet, which garnered over 45,000 views, spread rapidly before Twitter removed it for violating its policies. In another account, Pt. Shrikant Upadhyay shared a similar claim, with over 20,000 views, also eventually taken down.

Alt News debunked the video, revealing it was from Pakistan, not India. The footage showed a father beating his son in Karachi after his sleep was disturbed. The video had been falsely shared with claims that a Muslim man was beating a Hindu child.

In June 2023, a one-minute video showing an elderly couple pleading with a man and woman went viral. The claim circulating on social media suggested that the younger woman, from Gujarat, had married a Muslim man, and her parents were begging her to return. The video was shared by Ankur Arya, with Arya suggesting that the parents would cry when their daughter returned “in a fridge or a suitcase.” Arya’s tweet garnered over 95,000 views, and he never deleted the fake news. 

However, further investigation revealed the truth. A report from Gujarat Tak on June 5, 2023, clarified that the woman had eloped and married her elder brother’s brother-in-law, not a Muslim man. Her parents had initially arranged her marriage with her younger brother’s brother-in-law, but she ran away and married the other man. The video of the parents pleading was falsely framed as part of a communal story, even though the woman married within her own community.

In May 2023, he interviewed Acharya Azad, who justified mob violence, including the alleged murder of Junaid and Nasir by cow vigilantes. Arya sat silently as Azad defended the killings, claiming violence is needed to protect cows. He even encouraged the idea that vigilantes should use weapons. Through his videos, Arya fuels hate and violence in the name of religion.

In December 2020, a gruesome video of a man attacking a woman with a machete went viral, falsely linked to ‘love jihad.’ Arya claimed a Muslim man attacked a Hindu woman for rejecting his proposal, even though police and media reports confirmed both the attacker, Ismail K Kukura, and the victim, Asha Agasara, were from the same community. Despite the facts, Arya, known for spreading misinformation, pushed the false claim, fueling communal tension.

In December 2020, Arya shared a video of Sikh men at a 2016 pro-Khalistan rally, falsely linking it to the farmers’ protest in Delhi. Arya sarcastically tweeted, “These are poor farmers of India, Government, fulfill their demands. Now, some people will say that he is not from Delhi, some will say that he is not a farmer. And some will say that Ankur Arya is spreading hatred. So that attention can be diverted from the main problem.”

Arya’s tweet misled his followers by portraying a four-year-old video from the ‘Anakh Rally’ in 2016, where Sikh hardliners protested against the Punjab government as part of the farmers’ protest. The video, uploaded by the Khalsa Gatka Group, had no connection to the farmers’ movement, but Arya used it to spread hate and distract from the real issues at hand.