Sanjay Singh, a leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in October 2024 in connection with an alleged money laundering case related to the Delhi liquor policy scam, which has since been scrapped. However, on April 2, 2024, the Supreme Court granted him bail. Meantime, a video of the AAP leader has surfaced on social media claiming that Sanjay Singh is back and knows how to deal with the police.
The Facebook post reads: “Welcome back Sanjay Singh 🫡 He knows how to deal with Modi’s Police, CBI, ED🔥.”
The above post can be seen here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be FALSE.
Running the Viral video keyframes through the Reverse Image Search, the NM team came to know that this video has been circulating on social media since 2021. We found a Facebook post, dated October 22, 2021, with a caption, “Sanjay Singh Shows Yogi’s Police- Who’s The Real Gangsta🔥🔥🔥
The Facebook post reads: “Welcome back Sanjay Singh 🫡 He knows how to deal with Modi’s Police, CBI, ED🔥.” We noticed the name of the tagged account ‘Post Truth India’.
Searching further, we identified a tweet by the ‘Post Truth India’ X (formerly Twitter) handle, dated October 21, 2021, with a caption: “@SanjayAzadSln shows Yogi’s Police- who’s the real gangsta🤣🔥🤣🔥🤣🔥#Tiranga_Virodhi_BJP.”
On October 21, 2021, the official AAP Uttar Pradesh handle also posted a similar video depicting a confrontation between Singh and police officers. In another X post dated October 21, 2021, AAP criticised the Yogi government, alleging that Singh and his party members, who had come to Varanasi to conduct “Tiranga Yatra”, were detained by the Yogi Police.
Various news outlets have covered this incident, including this, this and this.
Thus, with the above findings, we can conclusively say that old clip from 2021 has been falsely shared as recent.
