A video is widely shared on social media with a claim that the Indian Army personnel shooting a stone pelter after he threw stones at the Army convoy in Jammu and Kashmir.
The video is shared with a caption: “मोदी है तो मुमकिन है। क्या और सरकारों के कार्यकाल में भी ऐसा मुमकिन था। जम्मू कश्मीर में एक पत्थरबाज ने फोजी के पत्थर मारा फोजी ने पत्थर का जवाब गोली से दिया.” (English translation: If Modi is there, then it is possible. Was this possible during the tenure of other governments? In Jammu and Kashmir, a stone pelter hit army personnel with stone, and army personnel responded to the stone with a bullet.)
The link to the post can be seen here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile did the fact-check, and found it to be fake.
On doing a Google Reverse Image Search with one of the screenshots, we found a Bolivian website, Los Tiempos, carrying a screengrab from the same video, dated August 8, 2022. The caption associated with the image reads: “Coca grower who was injured during the confrontation between coca growers from Adepcoca and the police | video capture.”
We found a similar screengrab on another website, Notigram, on August 14, 2022, mentioning that ‘a coca grower injured grievously after a dynamite exploded in his hands while he was confronting the authorities in Bolivia’.
Hence, we can ascertain that the viral incident is from Bolivia and not India. Thus, the viral claim is misleading.
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