A photograph of a policeman holding stones in each fingers has been viral on social media platforms for fairly a while. Customers declare that this can be a scene from the farmer protests towards the centre’s new farm payments. The months-long agitation turned violent in Delhi on January 26. Violent clashes broke out between the police and protesters in the course of the farmers’ Republic Day tractor rally. The Delhi Police used tear fuel bullets and lathi-charge to disperse crowds. After this, on January 29, a bunch of individuals pelted stones at protesting farmers on the Singhu border. These asking the farmers to clear the world recognized as ‘locals’. Alt Information present in its fact-check that BJP workers and members of the Hindu Sena had been a part of this group claiming to be locals.
Persons are additionally sharing a second photograph of a policeman with a stone in hand. “The photographs communicate for themselves, that is what is occurring in my nation,” reads the accompanying declare. (Archive link)
तस्वीरे खुद बोलती है,
क्या हो रहा है ये मेरे देश मे..।।#rsskegunde#FarmersProtestpic.twitter.com/QZQz5xGR08— नज़र फ़रीदी Nazar Faridi نظر فریدی (@NazarINCIndia) January 31, 2021
Many different Twitter customers additionally shared this image with the hashtags #farmersprotest and #rsskegunde (RSS goons).
The picture is being shared broadly on Fb as effectively. A Fb web page referred to as ‘Jumla Vahi Sunayenge’ posted the picture. This publish was shared by greater than 1,200 customers on the time of writing. (Archive link)
Reality-check
Alt Information carried out a reverse picture search and located a high-quality model of the {photograph} on the Nirmalagiri Faculty SFI Fb web page. The SFI (College students Federation of India) is a left-wing scholar group aligned to the Communist Celebration of India. This photograph was uploaded on August 23, 2013, with none description however together with photos of demonstrations.
Posted by Nirmalagiri College SFI on Friday, August 23, 2013
We contacted the Secretary and the President of the SFI unit of Nirmalagiri Faculty. They had been unable to supply extra details about the photograph. We didn’t discover a high-quality model of the viral picture wherever else aside from this web page. Since this image was uploaded on August 23, 2013, it can’t be consultant of the farmers’ protest.
We carried out a reverse picture of the primary image through which just one hand of a cop is seen, and got here throughout some tweets from final 12 months. Twitter person @single_life_000 posted a tweet on February 16, 2020, together with three photos of a cop’s hand. The unique Tamil caption learn, “Police or sly folks? #CAAProtest #Chennai #ChennaiBagh #ChennaiShaheenBagh #Chennaiagainst_CAA_NRC #ChennaiPolice # CAA_NRC_Protests #வீதிக்குவாங்க_ரஜினி. A more in-depth take a look at the photograph reveals that the policeman has a tattoo spelling out ‘RSS’ on his forearm.
காவல்துறையா? காவிகளின் ஏவல்துறையா? #CAAProtest#Chennai#ChennaiBagh#ChennaiShaheenBagh#Chennaiagainst_CAA_NRC#ChennaiPolice#CAA_NRC_Protests#வீதிக்குவாங்க_ரஜினிpic.twitter.com/iSQ1wn06vG
— UHD Tamil (@single_life_000) February 15, 2020
Customers are writing #rsskegunde (RSS goons) whereas sharing this image. We had been unable to assemble extra data on this photograph. It’s doable that ‘RSS’ could characterize the police officer’s initials. Nothing will be stated with certainty aside from the truth that the pictures are outdated therefore unrelated to farmers’ protest.
The second photograph went viral in the course of the anti-CAA protests as effectively. Boomlive had fact-checked it in February 2020.
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