{"id":39514,"date":"2019-06-26T22:06:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T16:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=39514"},"modified":"2022-04-07T17:15:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T11:45:21","slug":"old-incident-of-fire-at-rohingya-camp-in-delhi-shared-with-hate-filled-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-incident-of-fire-at-rohingya-camp-in-delhi-shared-with-hate-filled-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Old incident of fire at Rohingya camp in Delhi shared with hate-filled narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Far-right columnist Madhu Kishwar shared<\/a> an image of a man surrounded by children. According to the text attached to the photograph, he is a Rohingya Muslim who has no food to eat or clothes to wear but has three wives and eight children. It further claims that the man also has a mobile phone worth Rs 29,000.<\/p>\n

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A Facebook user Neha Patel, who is followed by 28,000 people on the social networking platform, had posted<\/a> the same image three years ago. Patel’s post was shared 1,700 times.<\/p>\n

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On December 14, 2019, Twitter user Dhanesh Agarwal posted<\/a> the same photograph of man surrounded by children along with a mug shot of another man. The second man has been claimed to be a Rohingya Muslim named Nassir Hussain, who has “3 pregnant wives and 10 children”.<\/p>\n

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We found the infographic shared by Madhu Kishwar has been circulating at least since 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On Twitter, one Meera Singh (@meeraremi11), who is followed by the office of union ministers Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman, had also circulated the post in 2019. (archive<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Meera Singh (@meeraremi11) June 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fact-check<\/h4>\n

Reverse-searching the image on Google led us to an April 15, 2018 ground report by\u00a0News18<\/a>, which is titled, “Rohingya Lose Their Sanctuary in Delhi to Fire, New Life of Six Years Turns to Ashes.”\u00a0The image was credited to photographer Debayan Roy.<\/p>\n

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According to the report, Rohingya man Haroon had fled persecution in Myanmar. His family, and 52 other Rohingya families, had been living in a makeshift camp Darul Hijrat in Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar since 2012. On April 15, 2018, the camp was engulfed in fire and reduced to ashes. “…the police have ruled out any foul play after teams from the Forensic Sciences Laboratory, BSES Ltd, and the fire department pointed towards a short circuit as the cause of [the] fire,” said the report.<\/p>\n

It is to be noted that the News18\u00a0report mentions that the residents of the camp were looking for their UN identity card in the rubble. It also adds police’s assurances of rebuilding the asylum and providing fresh IDs hence, the immigrants were not illegal refugees.<\/p>\n

Alt News spoke with Roy, who said,\u00a0“There was a fire in an asylum Darul Hijrat, which is run by Zakat foundation for Rohingya refugees. This place was found mysteriously burnt one morning. The entire area was completely burnt down. These people [in the picture] were sitting in a corner and the man was basically a father of two. His wife and son were hurt in the fire. The phone that you see in his hand was given to him by the Trust when they were serving food. In fact, he looked at the phone like an alien object. Whatever is claimed on social media is not true. This is a really sad turn of events.”<\/p>\n

The incident was reported by several media outlets, including\u00a0BBC<\/a>‘s\u00a0ground report, which quotes DCP Southeast Chinmay Biswal as saying,\u00a0“Cases of negligence have been registered under the related sections. FSL team and the electricity department have investigated the area. The fire department will also submit its report on the cause of the fire. All aspects would be considered to look into the matter.”<\/p>\n

A video of\u00a0The Wire’s\u00a0ground report is given below.<\/p>\n