{"id":85373,"date":"2021-01-30T17:09:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T11:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=85373"},"modified":"2021-01-30T18:49:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T13:19:15","slug":"image-from-2013-shared-as-delhi-police-attacking-sikh-man-during-farmers-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/image-from-2013-shared-as-delhi-police-attacking-sikh-man-during-farmers-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Image from 2013 shared as Delhi police attacking Sikh man during farmers&#8217; protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan-based journalist Bashir Chaudhary <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/20210129063947\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bashirchaudhry\/status\/1354110974538756100\">tweeted<\/a> an image of policemen attacking a Sikh man. &#8220;This picture will shake the foundations of #India. #JaagPunjabiJaag #IndianRepublicBlackDay #TractorMarchDelhi #KisanTractorRally #FarmersProtest,&#8221; he wrote linking the image to police violence during farmers&#8217; tractor parade on January 26.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85374 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-29-at-11.47.49.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-29-at-11.47.49.jpg 597w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-29-at-11.47.49-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Facebook user Ajay Tiwari <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210129062112if_\/https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/156632155772783\/permalink\/323865215716142\">posted<\/a> the image on the group &#8216;Prof. Gourav Vallabh Fan&#8217;s Club&#8217;. It gained close to 5,000 shares.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85375 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Screenshot_20210129-113200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Screenshot_20210129-113200.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Screenshot_20210129-113200-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Viral image dates back to 2013<\/h4>\n<p>Alt News performed a reverse image search on TinEye and found the same on Getty Images. It was clicked by Shekhar Yadav in 2013. The caption reads, &#8220;Sikh community members scuffle with policemen as they shout anti-government slogans during a demonstration against the acquittal of Congress politician Sajjan Kumar, in New Delhi.&#8221; We also found other images by Yadav related to the same incident on Getty Images. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.fr\/detail\/photo-d'actualit%C3%A9\/sikh-community-members-scuffle-with-policemen-as-photo-dactualit%C3%A9\/168147275?irgwc=1&amp;esource=AFF_GI_IR_TinEye_77643&amp;asid=TinEye&amp;cid=GI&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_source=TinEye&amp;utm_content=77643\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.fr\/detail\/photo-d'actualit%C3%A9\/sikh-community-members-scuffle-with-policemen-as-photo-dactualit%C3%A9\/168147276?irgwc=1&amp;esource=AFF_GI_IR_TinEye_77643&amp;asid=TinEye&amp;cid=GI&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_source=TinEye&amp;utm_content=77643\">2<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>As per a 2013 Livemint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Home-Page\/H8zz9yJB1nF1IL8OY3VetI\/Sikhs-block-rail-traffic-in-Punjab-hold-protest-in-Delhi.html\">report<\/a>, Sikh protestors attempted to march towards the Prime Minister\u2019s residence protesting against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar\u2019s acquittal in the 1984 riots case.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85378 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-29-at-12.03.21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1049\" height=\"789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-29-at-12.03.21.jpg 1049w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-29-at-12.03.21-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-29-at-12.03.21-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-29-at-12.03.21-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1049px) 100vw, 1049px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yadav currently works at The Indian Express. He quote-tweeted Chaudhary&#8217;s tweet and debunked the claim.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This photo of mine is from the 1984 sikh riots anniv protests at the jantar mantar from 10 years ago. Kindly stop using this as propaganda. \u0926\u0941\u0915\u093e\u0928 \u0915\u0947 \u0928\u093e\u092e \u092a\u0947 \u0915\u0941\u091b \u092d\u0940 ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qg6aPAqUu7\">https:\/\/t.co\/qg6aPAqUu7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shekhar Yadav (@Shekharyadav02) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shekharyadav02\/status\/1355021967624007681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Therefore, a 2013 image was shared on social media with the false claim that it is from the clashes between farmers and Delhi police. It is noteworthy that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zoo_bear\/status\/1355246595004985346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police violence<\/a> has been reported during the ongoing farmers&#8217; movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan-based journalist Bashir Chaudhary tweeted an image of policemen attacking a Sikh man. &#8220;This picture will shake the foundations of #India. #JaagPunjabiJaag #IndianRepublicBlackDay #TractorMarchDelhi #KisanTractorRally #FarmersProtest,&#8221; he wrote linking the image to police violence during farmers&#8217; tractor parade on January 26. Facebook user Ajay Tiwari posted the image on the group &#8216;Prof. Gourav Vallabh Fan&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":85618,"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-85373","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\/2021\/01\/40792c3b-aeaa-4357-ab36-3605ed7ce6dc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85373","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=85373"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85603,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85373\/revisions\/85603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85373"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=85373"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=85373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}