{"id":60619,"date":"2020-03-11T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T12:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=60619"},"modified":"2020-03-11T17:38:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T12:08:18","slug":"old-image-from-jk-viral-as-police-brutality-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-image-from-jk-viral-as-police-brutality-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Old image from J&K viral as police brutality in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"

An image of three policemen attacking a man in skull cap is being circulated on social media with the claim that it is from Delhi. A Facebook user posted<\/a> the viral image which received over 180 shares. The accompanying message reads, “\u0926\u093f\u0932\u094d\u0932\u0940 \u092a\u0941\u0932\u093f\u0938 \u092e\u0941\u0938\u0932\u092e\u093e\u0928\u094b\u0902 \u0938\u0947 \u0936\u093e\u0902\u0924\u093f \u0915\u0940 \u0905\u092a\u0940\u0932 \u0915\u0930\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0941\u090f!”<\/p>\n

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The viral image was also shared by a Twitter<\/a> user as well.<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h4>\n

Alt News performed a keyword search on Google and after rummaging through several results, we found<\/a> a Facebook post from November 2019 which carried the viral image. This image was watermarked ‘Sofi Ahsan.’<\/p>\n

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Alt News looked-up Sofi Ahsan on Google and found that a journalist by the same name works for The Indian Express<\/em><\/a>. We reached out to him on Twitter and found that the viral image was clicked by him. Ashan said, “The viral image is not from Delhi. I clicked the picture in Eidgah, Srinagar on October 6, 2014. It was the day of Eid ul Adha<\/span>. Eidgah area usually witnesses anti-India protests after Eid ul Adha prayers. I saw him [the man seen kicked] return after attending the prayer. I cannot comment on if he was a protestor or why he was attacked.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ahsan emailed the viral photo and other photos he clicked that day. The image highlighted in red is the viral image.<\/p>\n

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After analysing the EXIF data of the images shared by Ahsan, Alt News confirmed that they were clicked on October 6, 2014. The viral image was on clicked 11:05 AM. The EXIF data of the viral image is attached below.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Alt News performed another keyword search and found a 2014 article by International Business Times<\/em><\/a> that reported Eid ul Adha was celebrated on October 6 that year in India while Gulf countries celebrated it on October 4. <\/span><\/p>\n

The social media claim that the viral image is from recent communal riots in Delhi is false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An image of three policemen attacking a man in skull cap is being circulated on social media with the claim that it is from Delhi. A Facebook user posted the viral image which received over 180 shares. The accompanying message reads, “\u0926\u093f\u0932\u094d\u0932\u0940 \u092a\u0941\u0932\u093f\u0938 \u092e\u0941\u0938\u0932\u092e\u093e\u0928\u094b\u0902 \u0938\u0947 \u0936\u093e\u0902\u0924\u093f \u0915\u0940 \u0905\u092a\u0940\u0932 \u0915\u0930\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0941\u090f!” The viral image was also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":60651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[682],"class_list":["post-60619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/FI-Alt-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60619"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60733,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60619\/revisions\/60733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60619"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=60619"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=60619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}