{"id":72139,"date":"2020-07-31T19:44:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T14:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=72139"},"modified":"2020-07-31T19:44:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T14:14:28","slug":"mock-drill-video-shared-as-terrorist-caught-by-delhi-police-in-gaffar-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mock-drill-video-shared-as-terrorist-caught-by-delhi-police-in-gaffar-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Mock drill video shared as terrorist caught by Delhi police in Gaffar market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of policemen escorting a man from the basement of a building has been shared on social media as &#8220;terrorist&#8221; caught in Delhi&#8217;s Gaffar market. The person recording the video can be heard making this claim.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/indiladtv\/videos\/790999668309090\/\" data-show-text=\"true\" data-width=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/indiladtv\/videos\/790999668309090\/\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Terrorist caught red-handed at Gaffar Market Delhi today \ud83d\ude2f\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/indiladtv\/\">INDILAD<\/a> on Wednesday, 29 July 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The video is also floating on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Two terrorist at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GaffarMarket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GaffarMarket<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CarolBagh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CarolBagh<\/a> New Delhi .<br \/>\nOne killed &amp; another arrested .<\/p>\n<p>Need Confirmation ?? Is this Correct ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Delhi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Delhi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Terriorist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Terriorist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CXRbGPqZgC\">pic.twitter.com\/CXRbGPqZgC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Major Saurabh Sharma Retd (@MajorSaurabhSh1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MajorSaurabhSh1\/status\/1288498938182381569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It has also been shared with a Hindi caption \u2014 &#8220;In Karol Bagh, Gaffar market, a terrorist was caught. Salute to Karol Bagh SHO and all staff. (\u0915\u0930\u094b\u0932 \u092c\u093e\u0917\u093c \u0917\u092b\u094d\u092b\u093e\u0930 \u092e\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0915\u0947\u091f \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u091f\u0947\u0930\u0930\u093f\u0938\u094d\u091f \u0915\u094b \u092a\u0915\u0921\u093c\u093e \u0915\u0930\u094b\u0932 \u092c\u093e\u0917 \u0915\u0940 \u092a\u0941\u0932\u093f\u0938 \u0925\u093e\u0928\u093e \u092a\u094d\u0930\u092d\u093e\u0930\u0940 \u0914\u0930 \u0938\u092d\u0940 \u0907\u0938\u094d\u091f\u093e\u092b \u0915\u094b \u0938\u0948\u0932\u094d\u092f\u0942\u091f.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shyamjaggarwal\/videos\/2123552567789739\/\" data-show-text=\"true\" data-width=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/shyamjaggarwal\/videos\/2123552567789739\/\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u0915\u0930\u094b\u0932 \u092c\u093e\u0917\u093c \u0917\u092b\u094d\u092b\u093e\u0930 \u092e\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0915\u0947\u091f \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u091f\u0947\u0930\u0930\u093f\u0938\u094d\u091f \u0915\u094b \u092a\u0915\u0921\u093c\u093e<br \/>\n\u0915\u0930\u094b\u0932 \u092c\u093e\u0917 \u0915\u0940 \u092a\u0941\u0932\u093f\u0938 \u0925\u093e\u0928\u093e \u092a\u094d\u0930\u092d\u093e\u0930\u0940 \u0914\u0930 \u0938\u092d\u0940 \u0907\u0938\u094d\u091f\u093e\u092b \u0915\u094b \u0938\u0948\u0932\u094d\u092f\u0942\u091f<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shyamjaggarwal\">Shyam Jaggarwal<\/a> on Wednesday, 29 July 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Mock drill<\/h4>\n<p>Had a terrorist been caught in the national capital, it would be all over the news. However, the same has not been reported in the media. This suggested that the video must represent a mock drill conducted by the police.<\/p>\n<p>On July 29, journalist Tarun Sharma <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tarun10sharma\/status\/1288460384051945472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> the clip and wrote in Hindi, &#8220;Today, Delhi police conducted a mock drill in Delhi&#8217;s Karol Bagh market. Such mock drills are often conducted before August 15. In this mock drill, police are taking three dummy terrorists into custody. This was conducted so that the police remains prepared in case of an emergency.&#8221; This was retweeted by DCP Central Delhi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-72141 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/e69e9ce8-1ce0-4ee1-8475-69ec2e4a565e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/e69e9ce8-1ce0-4ee1-8475-69ec2e4a565e.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/e69e9ce8-1ce0-4ee1-8475-69ec2e4a565e-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the claim that a terrorist was apprehended by the police in Delhi is false. Mock drill videos are often circulated as real incidents. Several such videos debunked by Alt News can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?s=mock+drill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of policemen escorting a man from the basement of a building has been shared on social media as &#8220;terrorist&#8221; caught in Delhi&#8217;s Gaffar market. The person recording the video can be heard making this claim. &nbsp; Terrorist caught red-handed at Gaffar Market Delhi today \ud83d\ude2f\ud83d\ude0e Posted by INDILAD on Wednesday, 29 July 2020 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":72144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-72139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/Untitled-design-94.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72139","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72152,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72139\/revisions\/72152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72139"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=72139"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=72139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}