{"id":53402,"date":"2019-12-12T20:58:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=53402"},"modified":"2019-12-12T21:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:30:28","slug":"photo-from-mp-shared-as-hanuman-idol-found-at-allotted-site-for-mosque-in-ayodhya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/photo-from-mp-shared-as-hanuman-idol-found-at-allotted-site-for-mosque-in-ayodhya\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo from MP shared as Hanuman idol found at allotted site for mosque in Ayodhya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A photograph has been shared widely on social media with the claim that a statue of Hindu deity Hanuman has been found at the site of the five acres allotted to the Sunni Waqf Board in Ayodhya by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kalyanasundharam.annadhanam\/posts\/2489866687796647\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/kalyanasundharam.annadhanam\/posts\/2489866687796647\"><p>While digging five acres of land allotted to Babri masjid they found Lord Hanuman&#8217;s idol in the land. It shows Ayodhya is land of Lord Ram<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kalyanasundharam.annadhanam\">Kalyanasundharam Annadhanam<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/kalyanasundharam.annadhanam\/posts\/2489866687796647\">Tuesday, December 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>&#8220;While digging five acres of land allotted to Babri masjid they found Lord Hanuman&#8217;s idol in the land. It shows Ayodhya is land of Lord Ram&#8221;<\/em>, reads the viral message. The same has been posted on Twitter. The image has also been shared with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1037119486631365&amp;set=a.338064526536868&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">message in Telugu<\/a> which reads, <em>&#8220;\u0c05\u0c2f\u0c4b\u0c27\u0c4d\u0c2f\u0c32\u0c4b \u0c2e\u0c41\u0c38\u0c4d\u0c32\u0c40\u0c2e\u0c41\u0c32\u0c15\u0c41 \u0c07\u0c1a\u0c4d\u0c1a\u0c47 5 \u0c0e\u0c15\u0c30\u0c3e\u0c32 \u0c2d\u0c42\u0c2e\u0c3f\u0c32\u0c4b \u0c05\u0c15\u0c4d\u0c15\u0c21 \u0c2a\u0c46\u0c26\u0c4d\u0c26 \u0c17\u0c41\u0c02\u0c24 \u0c24\u0c35\u0c4d\u0c35\u0c41\u0c24\u0c41\u0c02\u0c1f\u0c47 \u0c2a\u0c41\u0c30\u0c3e\u0c24\u0c28 \u0c2e\u0c48\u0c28 \u0c39\u0c28\u0c41\u0c2e\u0c3e\u0c28\u0c4d \u0c35\u0c3f\u0c17\u0c4d\u0c30\u0c39\u0c02 \u0c2c\u0c2f\u0c1f\u0c2a\u0c21\u0c3f\u0c02\u0c26\u0c3f&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..\u0c07\u0c2a\u0c4d\u0c2a\u0c41\u0c21\u0c41 \u0c0f\u0c02 \u0c1a\u0c47\u0c38\u0c4d\u0c24\u0c3e\u0c30\u0c41 \u0c35\u0c47\u0c1a\u0c3f \u0c1a\u0c42\u0c21\u0c3e\u0c32\u0c3f \u0c1c\u0c48 \u0c36\u0c4d\u0c30\u0c40\u0c30\u0c3e\u0c02&#8230; \u0c05\u0c02\u0c1f\u0c47 \u0c05\u0c2f\u0c4b\u0c27\u0c4d\u0c2f \u0c05\u0c02\u0c24\u0c1f\u0c3e \u0c36\u0c4d\u0c30\u0c40\u0c30\u0c3e\u0c2e \u0c39\u0c28\u0c41\u0c2e\u0c3e\u0c28\u0c4d \u0c06\u0c28\u0c35\u0c3e\u0c33\u0c4d\u0c32\u0c41&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jai Shri Ram.\ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>While digging five acres of land allotted to Babri masjid they found Lord Hanuman&#8217;s idol in the land. It shows Ayodhya is land of Lord Ram. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3S5wYH4Gsn\">pic.twitter.com\/3S5wYH4Gsn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yajathri.U (@yajathri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yajathri\/status\/1204942077202534400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It has been circulating on WhatsApp as well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-1.32.50-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-1.32.50-PM.png 458w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-1.32.50-PM-300x288.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>FACT CHECK: NOT FOUND AT AYODHYA<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The social media claim is false. The idol has not been recovered from Ayodhya, but from a site in Madhya Pradesh. Upon reverse-searching the image, Alt News found it in a news report by the Hindi publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patrika.com\/bhopal-news\/madhya-pradesh-ancient-statue-found-in-farm-during-excavation-4830655\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Patrika<\/em><\/a>. The report of July 2019 states that the idol was found in the village of Barkhedi Abdulla in Bhopal district of MP.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bhopal1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bhopal1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bhopal1-300x269.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The report also contains a similar image to the one which has been shared widely as the recovery of a Hanuman idol at the site of the five acres allotted to the Sunni Waqf Board. Alt News found these images on another website, <a href=\"https:\/\/samacharofindia.com\/?p=8415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Samachar of India<\/em><\/a>. This report too is of July 2019. Alt News spoke to Suresh Damle, CSP Ayodhya Nagar, Bhopal who confirmed that the idol was indeed recovered from the village of Barkhedi Abdulla in July 2019, but refused to elaborate on the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bhopal2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bhopal2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bhopal2-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bhopal2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It may thus be noted that the image of a Hanuman idol shared as &#8220;found during digging at the site allotted to the Sunni Waqf Board in Ayodhya&#8221;, is actually from Bhopal district in MP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photograph has been shared widely on social media with the claim that a statue of Hindu deity Hanuman has been found at the site of the five acres allotted to the Sunni Waqf Board in Ayodhya by the Supreme Court. 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