{"id":80744,"date":"2020-11-23T20:08:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=80744"},"modified":"2020-11-23T20:08:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:38:20","slug":"delhi-cop-seema-dhaka-traced-76-missing-children-soon-after-many-twitter-accounts-created-using-her-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/delhi-cop-seema-dhaka-traced-76-missing-children-soon-after-many-twitter-accounts-created-using-her-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Twitter account created in the name of Delhi cop Seema Dhaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Seema Dhaka, a head constable in the Delhi Police, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/hindi\/media-55005692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rescued 76 missing children<\/a> after only having been in the force for two and a half months. She was promoted to the position of an assistant sub-inspector on November 19. She also became the first police personnel of Delhi police to receive an OTP (out-of-turn promotion). Meanwhile, Twitter user @seemadhaka0 tweeted a picture on the same day, writing, &#8220;My duty is to serve the public\u2026&#8221; The tweet has received 24,900 likes and 1,200 retweets at the time of writing. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/z8nm2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-80747 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-23-at-7.40.02-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"555\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Social media users believe this account belongs to Seema Dhaka herself. A Twitter user with the display name \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xWRu3VfBVaghJSZ\/status\/1329836207648411648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SP leader Golu Yadav<\/a>\u2019 tagged the handle congratulating the officer for her promotion. It was also retweeted by @seemadhaka0. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/2nw43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-80745 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/word-image-6-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On November 21, this handle also posted a tweet thanking everyone after reaching 5000 followers. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201121085515\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/seemadhaka0\/status\/1330063204626681857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-80748 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-23-at-7.42.45-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Fact-check<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Alt News reached out to Seema Dhaka who clarified, &#8220;<strong>This is a fake Twitter account. I do not have an account on Twitter.<\/strong>&#8221; The policewoman added that she had called out the misinformation from her husband \u00a0Anit Dhaka&#8217;s Twitter account. He wrote that @seemadhaka0 is a fake account in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anitk1230\/with_replies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his replies to a number of tweets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u092f\u0947 \u090f\u0915 \u092b\u0930\u094d\u091c\u0940 \u090f\u0915\u093e\u0909\u0902\u091f \u0916\u094b\u0932\u093e \u0917\u092f\u093e \u0939\u0948 \u0905\u0917\u0930 \u091c\u0932\u094d\u0926 \u0939\u0940 \u0907\u0938\u0947 \u0921\u093f\u0932\u0940\u091f \u0928\u093e \u0915\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0917\u092f\u093e \u0924\u094b \u0907\u0938 \u092a\u0930 \u0915\u093e\u0928\u0942\u0928\u0940 \u0915\u093e\u0930\u094d\u092f\u0935\u093e\u0939\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u091c\u093e \u0938\u0915\u0924\u0940 \u0939\u0948\u0964 \u0905\u092c \u091c\u093f\u0938 \u090f\u0915\u093e\u0909\u0902\u091f \u0938\u0947 \u092e\u0948\u0902 \u091f\u094d\u0935\u093f\u091f \u0915\u0930 \u0930\u0939\u0940 \u0939\u0942\u0901 \u092f\u0947 \u092e\u0947\u0930\u0947 \u0939\u0938\u092c\u0948\u0902\u0921 \u0915\u093e \u090f\u0915\u093e\u0909\u0902\u091f \u0939\u0948\u0964 \u092e\u0948\u0902 \u0905\u092d\u0940 \u0924\u0915 twitter \u092a\u0947 \u0928\u0939\u0940 \u0939\u0942\u0901 \u0914\u0930 \u092f\u0947 \u092c\u093e\u0924\u0947\u0902 \u092e\u0948\u0902 \u0938\u092d\u0940 \u092e\u0940\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e \u091a\u0948\u0928\u0932\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u092d\u0940 \u092c\u0924\u093e \u091a\u0941\u0915\u0940 \u0939\u0942\u0901\u0964 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SeemaDhaka?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SeemaDhaka<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANIT DHAKA (@anitk1230) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anitk1230\/status\/1329844044298473473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Several fake Seema Dhaka Twitter created<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We found <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=seema%20dhaka%20&amp;src=recent_search_click&amp;f=user\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several Twitter accounts posing as Seema Dhaka<\/a>, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeemaDhaka10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SeemaDhaka10<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/PQTQ1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archive link<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSeemaDhaka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RealSeemaDhaka<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/3Id4o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archive link<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seemadhakalive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@seemadhakalive<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/5Nx5M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archive link<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seemadhaka15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@seemadhaka15<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/U4cUu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archive link<\/a>), and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Seemadhaka13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Seemadhaka13<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/8Vw7R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archive link<\/a>). All of these accounts were created in November 2020.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-80744 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/delhi-cop-seema-dhaka-traced-76-missing-children-soon-after-many-twitter-accounts-created-using-her-name\/2twitter\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"815\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/2Twitter.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/2Twitter.jpg 815w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/2Twitter-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/2Twitter-768x625.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/delhi-cop-seema-dhaka-traced-76-missing-children-soon-after-many-twitter-accounts-created-using-her-name\/3twitter\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"812\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/3Twitter.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/3Twitter.jpg 812w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/3Twitter-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/3Twitter-768x550.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/delhi-cop-seema-dhaka-traced-76-missing-children-soon-after-many-twitter-accounts-created-using-her-name\/4twitter\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"812\" height=\"617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/4Twitter.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/4Twitter.jpg 812w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/4Twitter-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/4Twitter-768x584.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/delhi-cop-seema-dhaka-traced-76-missing-children-soon-after-many-twitter-accounts-created-using-her-name\/5twitter\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"808\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/5Twitter.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/5Twitter.png 808w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/5Twitter-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/5Twitter-768x579.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/delhi-cop-seema-dhaka-traced-76-missing-children-soon-after-many-twitter-accounts-created-using-her-name\/6twitter\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"808\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/6Twitter.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/6Twitter.png 808w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/6Twitter-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/6Twitter-768x544.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In fact, some of them also posted tweets insisting they belong to Seema Dhaka.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-80744 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/delhi-cop-seema-dhaka-traced-76-missing-children-soon-after-many-twitter-accounts-created-using-her-name\/attachment\/33\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"448\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/33.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/33.png 448w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/33-266x300.png 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/delhi-cop-seema-dhaka-traced-76-missing-children-soon-after-many-twitter-accounts-created-using-her-name\/11-14\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/11.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/11.png 454w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/11-262x300.png 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/delhi-cop-seema-dhaka-traced-76-missing-children-soon-after-many-twitter-accounts-created-using-her-name\/22%e0%a4%9c%e0%a5%8d\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"442\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/22\u091c\u094d.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/22\u091c\u094d.jpg 442w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/22\u091c\u094d-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Another similar incident occurred in July 2020, when a video of former police officer Sunita Yadav went viral. In the clip, she was seen confronting a Gujarat minister\u2019s son for violating lockdown rules. Following this, there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/after-stopping-gujarat-health-ministers-son-violating-curfew-in-surat-by-sunita-yadav-many-fake-twitter-accounts-created-using-her-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proliferation of Twitter handles<\/a> falsely claiming to be Yadav.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Seema Dhaka, a head constable in the Delhi Police, rescued 76 missing children after only having been in the force for two and a half months. She was promoted to the position of an assistant sub-inspector on November 19. She also became the first police personnel of Delhi police to receive an OTP (out-of-turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":80762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[664],"class_list":["post-80744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-social-media-claims","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Facebook-Ad-1200x628-px-2020-11-21T180749.123.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80744","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80763,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80744\/revisions\/80763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80744"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=80744"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=80744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}