Old video of women falling into sewage drain in Pakistan shared as Delhi

Recently, a video of two women falling into a big open sewage drain on the street has going viral online. Social media users have been sharing this video suggesting that was shot in Delhi. One user tweeted this video on August 11 and wrote, “Here are Salma and Shakina Kejriwal seen falling in the lanes of Kejriwal’s London”. The article had been viewed 32,000 times and received 1,900 retweets at the time of writing. (link to archived tweet)

सलमा और शकिना केजरीवाल के लंदन की गलियों में गिरती हुई😂😂 pic.twitter.com/MScGT4l2uw

— Sandeep Mishra (@mysandeepmishra) August 11, 2020

Facebook user Deepak Singh had also shared the video claiming it was from Delhi. At the time of writing, it had been viewed 36,000 times and garnered 922 shares. (archive)

The video has also gone viral on Facebook and Twitter with users claiming that it shows an incident in Delhi.

Fact-check

Performing a reverse image search using certain frames of the clip led us to a video posted on a Facebook page titled Ahtasham Kayani. It had been posted on September 14, 2017. Apart from this, the same video had also been posted on another Pakistani Facebook page on September 16, 2017.

Pakistani news channel called Capital TV had also uploaded the video on September 13, 2017, writing “Two women fall into gutter in NA 120”. NA 120 is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.

Therefore, a September 2017 video from Pakistan showing two women falling into a sewage drain is being falsely circulated with claims that it is from Delhi. Users have been sharing this 3-year-old clip targeting Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal. Not too long ago, a video of a boy who fell into a manhole in Pakistan’s Karachi after heavy rains similarly went viral as Mumbai. Apart from this, some more old videos and pictures were shared on social media to target Kejriwal following heavy rains in Delhi.