A picture of a family sitting in a flooded street went viral on social media with a claim that the picture is from Delhi following the heavy rainfall in the area.
The post read: लंदन की #टेम्स नदी में बैठकर चाय की #चुस्कियों का आनंद लेते #दिल्ली वासी 🤔🤔🤣🤣
कहो दिल से बॉस डी#वाल फिर से.
(English Translation: Delhi people enjoying a sip of tea sitting in the Thames River in London)
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above post and found it to be misleading.
On putting the picture through a Google Reverse Image search, we found this picture on a tweet posted by a verified account by the name, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer. Along with the picture, he had claimed that the family in the picture is from Mansa District, Punjab and they were protesting against the sewage problem in their area. It is dated July 18, 2016.
Family in Mansa dist #Punjab protesting against shoddy sewage wrk by #akalis .Ppl r waiting fr 2017 @ArvindKejriwal pic.twitter.com/VUZFNjxuzR
— Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer (@meet_hayer) July 18, 2016
In the comment section of the same post, we found a newspaper clipping from ‘Punjab Kesri’, with the same claims.
@hallagullaboy @meet_hayer pic.twitter.com/G5n5HzLATH
— Justice for #PMCDEPOSITORS (@BeHuman00x) July 21, 2016
Thus, it can be concluded that the above picture is from Mansa District in Punjab and NOT Delhi.
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