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The text reads, <em>&#8220;Farid Khan, this man from Pakistan wear Indian flag dress pretend to be an Indian cricket fan is peeing in The Oval gallery during India v\/s Australia match and also recorded the video and posted on social media, video goes to viral then London police arrested him and his 2 brothers. Such a shameful act by Pakistani citizen&#8221;. <\/em>It suggested that a Pakistani citizen attempted to tarnish India\u2019s image by pretending to be an Indian fan who indulged in the obscenity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38654\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/2019-06-15-16_20_44-Screenshot_20190614-185240_01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/2019-06-15-16_20_44-Screenshot_20190614-185240_01.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/2019-06-15-16_20_44-Screenshot_20190614-185240_01-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/2019-06-15-16_20_44-Screenshot_20190614-185240_01-768x639.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/2019-06-15-16_20_44-Screenshot_20190614-185240_01-1024x851.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/2019-06-15-16_20_44-Screenshot_20190614-185240_01-990x823.png 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Facebook page &#8211;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheIndianStories\/posts\/1113395682195380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Indian Stories<\/a><\/em> &#8211; posted the same poster on June 10, 2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheIndianStories\/posts\/1113395682195380\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/TheIndianStories\/posts\/1113395682195380\"><p>\ud83d\ude20\ud83d\ude20<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheIndianStories\/\">The Indian Stories<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/TheIndianStories\/posts\/1113395682195380\">Sunday, 9 June 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Fact-check<\/h2>\n<p>Alt News found that the man dressed in the tricolour is an avid Indian cricket fan named Narendra Bhojani. He is one of the three Bhojani brothers known for attending Indian cricket matches dressed in the Indian tricolour; the other two being Harivardan and Suresh.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">An undated video of a guy peeing inside cricket stadium while watching cricket is viral on social media.<br \/>\nThe guy in the video is Narendra Bhojani.<br \/>\nFB I&#8217;d: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/28HmtKa5De\">https:\/\/t.co\/28HmtKa5De<\/a>.<br \/>\nBhojani Brothers also run a FB page : <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wCfAi6px7N\">https:\/\/t.co\/wCfAi6px7N<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TwmJciqSE7\">https:\/\/t.co\/TwmJciqSE7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HthZBEfkKl\">pic.twitter.com\/HthZBEfkKl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zoo_bear\/status\/1137759311889723393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The siblings manage a cricket fan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/130169123730712\/posts\/2309617952452474\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">page<\/a>, which was found to be taken down at the time of writing.\u00a0Bhojani has also been photographed by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.in\/detail\/news-photo\/an-indian-fan-during-the-womens-world-cup-2017-semi-final-news-photo\/819427734?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Getty Images<\/a><\/em> as <em>&#8220;an Indian fan&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38658\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Bhojani-Getty-Images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1097\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Bhojani-Getty-Images.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Bhojani-Getty-Images-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Bhojani-Getty-Images-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Bhojani-Getty-Images-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Bhojani-Getty-Images-130x86.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Bhojani-Getty-Images-187x124.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Bhojani-Getty-Images-990x652.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1097px) 100vw, 1097px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Narendra Bhojani hails from Kutch, Gujarat and was interviewed by a Gujarati web portal<em> Leva Patel News<\/em> on April 7, 2016. In the interview, Narendra Bhojani can be heard saying, <em>&#8220;We [brothers] were born in India and live in London&#8221;<\/em>. The interviewer introduced him as a Gujarati. He further added, <em>&#8220;We are a special group, we call ourselves Bhojani brothers but other people also join us&#8221;. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T9-zH5buucA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T9-zH5buucA<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Fact-checking other photographs in the collage<\/h3>\n<p>With a reverse image search on Google, it was found that the second image where a group of policemen can be seen nabbing a person is old and unrelated to the urinating incident. The image dates back to 2013 and pertains to an incident where an anti-G8 protester was arrested by the London police.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/2019-06-15-17_30_03-Stop-G8-protests-take-place-in-London-Photos-and-Images-_-european-pressphoto-ag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1263\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/2019-06-15-17_30_03-Stop-G8-protests-take-place-in-London-Photos-and-Images-_-european-pressphoto-ag.jpg 1263w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/2019-06-15-17_30_03-Stop-G8-protests-take-place-in-London-Photos-and-Images-_-european-pressphoto-ag-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/2019-06-15-17_30_03-Stop-G8-protests-take-place-in-London-Photos-and-Images-_-european-pressphoto-ag-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/2019-06-15-17_30_03-Stop-G8-protests-take-place-in-London-Photos-and-Images-_-european-pressphoto-ag-1024x648.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/2019-06-15-17_30_03-Stop-G8-protests-take-place-in-London-Photos-and-Images-_-european-pressphoto-ag-990x626.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1263px) 100vw, 1263px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News couldn&#8217;t verify the picture of an Iranian national passport. However, it may be noted that this picture contradicts the claim itself as the message talks about a Pakistani citizen whereas, the passport is of an Iranian national.<\/p>\n<p>The claim that Farid Khan, a Pakistani citizen, urinated in public during a cricket match while pretending to be an Indian is false. The man involved in the obscenity is an Indian-origin man named Narendra Bhojani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poster shared on social media claims that a Pakistani man masquerading as an Indian cricket fan was urinating at The Oval, London, during the India vs Australia game. A collage of photographs, where a man dressed in the Indian tricolour can be seen, was also shared along with the poster. 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