{"id":85785,"date":"2021-02-03T16:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T11:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=85785"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:53:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T11:23:31","slug":"fact-check-unrelated-image-of-injured-man-shared-with-false-claim-that-police-took-action-tractor-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fact-check-unrelated-image-of-injured-man-shared-with-false-claim-that-police-took-action-tractor-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-check: Sikh man who brandished sword during farmers&#8217; protest brutally thrashed by police?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collage of two pictures is viral on social media. The first photo shows a Sikh man attacking a cop and the second picture is of an injured elderly person. It is being claimed that the person attacking the police was brutally thrashed later on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vidyasagar.shukla.752\/posts\/2824531181168871\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vidyasagar.shukla.752\/posts\/2824531181168871\"><p>\u092c\u093e\u092c\u093e \u091c\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u0915\u092e\u094d\u092c\u0932 \u0920\u0941\u0915\u093e\u0908 \ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude44\ud83d\ude0b\ud83e\udd14<br \/>\n\u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0938\u0947 \u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0939\u094b \u0917\u090f \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0924\u0947 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0924\u0947 \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Before After \ud83d\ude00\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vidyasagar.shukla.752\">Vidyasagar Shukla<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vidyasagar.shukla.752\/posts\/2824531181168871\">Thursday, 28 January 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The same has also been shared with the following Kannada text &#8211; #\u0c89\u0caa\u0c9a\u0cbe\u0cb0\u0ca6_\u0ca8\u0c82\u0ca4\u0cb0.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ramesh.rameshtnr\/posts\/1033648000789488\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ramesh.rameshtnr\/posts\/1033648000789488\"><p>#\u0c89\u0caa\u0c9a\u0cbe\u0cb0\u0ca6_\u0ca8\u0c82\u0ca4\u0cb0&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ramesh.rameshtnr\">Ramesh Ramesh Tnr<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ramesh.rameshtnr\/posts\/1033648000789488\">Thursday, 28 January 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The collage is widely circulating on both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=1156157761467848&amp;id=100012209057356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pradeep4363\/status\/1355888723758436358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-85785 gallery-columns-2 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\/fact-check-unrelated-image-of-injured-man-shared-with-false-claim-that-police-took-action-tractor-rally\/2021-02-02-15_52_50-1-facebook-compressed\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"508\" height=\"813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/2021-02-02-15_52_50-1-Facebook-compressed.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/2021-02-02-15_52_50-1-Facebook-compressed.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/2021-02-02-15_52_50-1-Facebook-compressed-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/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\/fact-check-unrelated-image-of-injured-man-shared-with-false-claim-that-police-took-action-tractor-rally\/2021-02-02-15_54_10-1-pradeep-kumar-gupta%f0%9f%9a%a9-on-twitter_-_%e0%a4%ac%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%ac%e0%a4%be-%e0%a4%9c%e0%a5%80-%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%80-%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%ae%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%ac%e0%a4%b2-%e0%a4%a0\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"812\" height=\"807\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/2021-02-02-15_54_10-1-Pradeep-kumar-gupta\ud83d\udea9-on-Twitter_-_\u092c\u093e\u092c\u093e-\u091c\u0940-\u0915\u0940-\u0915\u092e\u094d\u092c\u0932-\u0920\u0941\u0915\u093e\u0908-\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude44\ud83d\ude0b\ud83e\udd14-\u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e-\u0938\u0947-\u0915.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/2021-02-02-15_54_10-1-Pradeep-kumar-gupta\ud83d\udea9-on-Twitter_-_\u092c\u093e\u092c\u093e-\u091c\u0940-\u0915\u0940-\u0915\u092e\u094d\u092c\u0932-\u0920\u0941\u0915\u093e\u0908-\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude44\ud83d\ude0b\ud83e\udd14-\u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e-\u0938\u0947-\u0915.jpg 812w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/2021-02-02-15_54_10-1-Pradeep-kumar-gupta\ud83d\udea9-on-Twitter_-_\u092c\u093e\u092c\u093e-\u091c\u0940-\u0915\u0940-\u0915\u092e\u094d\u092c\u0932-\u0920\u0941\u0915\u093e\u0908-\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude44\ud83d\ude0b\ud83e\udd14-\u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e-\u0938\u0947-\u0915-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/2021-02-02-15_54_10-1-Pradeep-kumar-gupta\ud83d\udea9-on-Twitter_-_\u092c\u093e\u092c\u093e-\u091c\u0940-\u0915\u0940-\u0915\u092e\u094d\u092c\u0932-\u0920\u0941\u0915\u093e\u0908-\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude44\ud83d\ude0b\ud83e\udd14-\u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e-\u0938\u0947-\u0915-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/2021-02-02-15_54_10-1-Pradeep-kumar-gupta\ud83d\udea9-on-Twitter_-_\u092c\u093e\u092c\u093e-\u091c\u0940-\u0915\u0940-\u0915\u092e\u094d\u092c\u0932-\u0920\u0941\u0915\u093e\u0908-\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude44\ud83d\ude0b\ud83e\udd14-\u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e-\u0938\u0947-\u0915-768x763.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>Fact-check<\/h4>\n<p>The first picture was shared on social media after the farmers&#8217; tractor rally held in Delhi on January 26. The pictures depict the violence that ensued during the rally on Republic Day, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/hindi\/india-55829489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC report<\/a> that credits the picture to PTI photo journalist Ravi Choudhary.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF;border: 0;border-radius: 3px;margin: 1px;max-width: 540px;min-width: 326px;padding: 0\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CKgwTuAJ3Ck\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row;align-items: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 40px;margin-right: 14px;width: 40px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 100px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 60px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 50px;margin: 0 auto 12px;width: 50px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 550;line-height: 18px\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row;margin-bottom: 14px;align-items: center\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px;flex-grow: 0;margin-right: 14px;margin-left: 2px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 20px;width: 20px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 2px solid transparent;border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4;border-bottom: 2px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-right: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;flex-grow: 0;height: 12px;width: 16px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-left: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center;margin-bottom: 24px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 224px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 144px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 17px;margin-bottom: 0;margin-top: 8px;overflow: hidden;padding: 8px 0 7px;text-align: center\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 17px;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CKgwTuAJ3Ck\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A post shared by Ravi Choudhary (@choudharyravi)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We located the second image with the help of Google reverse image search. Shiromani Akali Dal general secretary and former minister Bikram Singh Majithia had tweeted a set of pictures on December 27, 2020, including the viral photo of the injured Sikh man. His tweet said that farmers on their way to participate in the protests at Delhi border met with an accident near Khanna in Punjab.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"pa\">\u0a2c\u0a40\u0a24\u0a40 \u0a30\u0a3e\u0a24 \u0a2a\u0a3f\u0a70\u0a21 \u0a35\u0a21\u0a3e\u0a32\u0a47 \u0a24\u0a4b\u0a02 \u0a26\u0a3f\u0a71\u0a32\u0a40 &#8216;\u0a15\u0a3f\u0a38\u0a3e\u0a28 \u0a05\u0a70\u0a26\u0a4b\u0a32\u0a28&#8217; &#8216;\u0a1a \u0a38\u0a3c\u0a3e\u0a2e\u0a32 \u0a39\u0a4b\u0a23 \u0a1c\u0a3e \u0a30\u0a39\u0a47 \u0a15\u0a3f\u0a38\u0a3e\u0a28 \u0a2d\u0a30\u0a3e\u0a35\u0a3e\u0a02 \u0a26\u0a47 \u0a16\u0a70\u0a28\u0a3e \u0a28\u0a47\u0a5c\u0a47 \u0a10\u0a15\u0a38\u0a40\u0a21\u0a48\u0a02\u0a1f \u0a39\u0a4b\u0a23 \u0a26\u0a40 \u0a16\u0a3c\u0a2c\u0a30 \u0a2e\u0a3f\u0a32\u0a40\u0964 \u0a2b\u0a4b\u0a28 &#8216;\u0a24\u0a47 \u0a09\u0a28\u0a4d\u0a39\u0a3e\u0a02 \u0a26\u0a3e \u0a39\u0a3e\u0a32 \u0a2a\u0a41\u0a71\u0a1b\u0a3f\u0a06 \u0a24\u0a3e\u0a02 \u0a2a\u0a24\u0a3e \u0a32\u0a71\u0a17\u0a3e \u0a15\u0a3f \u0a35\u0a3e\u0a39\u0a3f\u0a17\u0a41\u0a30\u0a42 \u0a26\u0a40 \u0a15\u0a4d\u0a30\u0a3f\u0a2a\u0a3e \u0a38\u0a26\u0a15\u0a3e \u0a38\u0a3e\u0a30\u0a47 \u0a20\u0a40\u0a15-\u0a20\u0a40\u0a15 \u0a39\u0a28\u0964 \u0a05\u0a30\u0a26\u0a3e\u0a38 \u0a15\u0a30\u0a26\u0a3e \u0a39\u0a3e\u0a02 \u0a1c\u0a3c\u0a16\u0a2e\u0a40 \u0a39\u0a4b\u0a0f \u0a15\u0a3f\u0a38\u0a3e\u0a28 \u0a2d\u0a30\u0a3e\u0a35\u0a3e\u0a02 \u0a28\u0a42\u0a70 \u0a05\u0a15\u0a3e\u0a32 \u0a2a\u0a41\u0a30\u0a16 \u0a1c\u0a32\u0a26 \u0a38\u0a3f\u0a39\u0a24\u0a2f\u0a3e\u0a2c \u0a15\u0a30\u0a28\u0964 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9bjnzQyej8\">pic.twitter.com\/9bjnzQyej8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bikram Majithia (@bsmajithia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bsmajithia\/status\/1343159493899612160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The incident was also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/punjab.news18.com\/news\/punjab\/accident-near-khanna-of-farmers-going-to-join-kisan-andolan-delhi-186237.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News18 Punjab<\/a> in a December 28, 2020 report. It said that farmers of Kirti Kisan Union, Wadala were going to participate in the demonstration when they met with a road accident. Kirti Kisan Union too had posted pictures of the accident.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kirtikisanunion\/posts\/182861136899377\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kirtikisanunion\/posts\/182861136899377\"><p>\u0a15\u0a3f\u0a30\u0a24\u0a40 \u0a15\u0a3f\u0a38\u0a3e\u0a28 \u0a2f\u0a42\u0a28\u0a40\u0a05\u0a28 \u0a07\u0a15\u0a3e\u0a08 \u0a2a\u0a3f\u0a70\u0a21 \u0a35\u0a21\u0a3e\u0a32\u0a3e \u0a24\u0a4b\u0a02 \u0a26\u0a3f\u0a71\u0a32\u0a40 &#8216;\u0a15\u0a3f\u0a38\u0a3e\u0a28 \u0a05\u0a70\u0a26\u0a4b\u0a32\u0a28&#8217; &#8216;\u0a1a \u0a36\u0a3e\u0a2e\u0a32 \u0a39\u0a4b\u0a23 \u0a1c\u0a3e \u0a30\u0a39\u0a47 \u0a15\u0a3f\u0a38\u0a3e\u0a28 \u0a2d\u0a30\u0a3e\u0a35\u0a3e\u0a02 \u0a26\u0a3e \u0a1f\u0a30\u0a48\u0a15\u0a1f\u0a30 \u0a39\u0a4b\u0a07\u0a06 \u0a16\u0a70\u0a28\u0a3e \u0a28\u0a47\u0a5c\u0a47&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kirtikisanunion\/\">\u0a15\u0a3f\u0a30\u0a24\u0a40 \u0a15\u0a3f\u0a38\u0a3e\u0a28 \u0a2f\u0a42\u0a28\u0a40\u0a05\u0a28 Kirti Kisan Union<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kirtikisanunion\/posts\/182861136899377\">Sunday, 27 December 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Therefore a picture of a Sikh man brandishing a sword at a cop during farmers&#8217; protest in Delhi was juxtaposed with an image of a man injured in a road accident while on his way to attend the protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collage of two pictures is viral on social media. 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