The viral picture on this poster predated the killing of Baba Siddique on October 12.
New Delhi:
A poster exhibiting Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis holding a gun has gone viral on social media. The poster reads “Revenge Full” and customers sharing it claimed it was put up after the latest homicide of NCP chief Baba Siddique.
The PTI Truth Test Desk, nevertheless, discovered that the viral picture predated the killing of Baba Siddique on October 12. In actual fact, the controversial poster was put up in numerous components of Mumbai by unknown people in September 2024, following the encounter of Akshay Shinde, the accused within the Badlapur sexual abuse case.
A person of the microblogging platform X shared the poster on October 15, writing, “A former minister, politician, and industrialist from Maharashtra has been murdered. After that, posters with photographs of Maharashtra’s Residence Minister and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, saying ‘Revenge Full’, had been put up throughout Mumbai. Does this imply Fadnavis orchestrated the homicide? Can such a poster be put up everywhere in the metropolis with out his consent? What route is the nation heading in? God save this nation (sic).” This publish has been seen over 35,000 instances, and the quantity is growing.
To confirm the declare, the Truth Test Desk carried out a reverse search of the viral picture utilizing Google Lens and located it in a information report printed by Hindustan Occasions on September 26.
The report talked about that after the dying of Shinde, who was accused of sexually abusing two women in Badlapur, in a police encounter, posters exhibiting Fadnavis holding a gun with the caption “Revenge Full” had been put up in a single day in areas reminiscent of Kherwadi, Andheri, Lalbaug, and Sion in Mumbai.
Some posters had been later eliminated by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC), in line with the information article.
Google searches with related key phrases additionally led the Truth Test group to media studies on Aaj Tak, TV9 Hindi, and News18. These studies confirmed that such posters had been put up by unknown people after Shinde’s encounter in Mumbai, with none point out of a particular chief or social gathering.
Siddique, additionally a former Maharashtra minister, was shot lifeless exterior the workplace of his MLA son Zeeshan Siddiqui on October 12. The Lawrence Bishnoi gang reportedly claimed accountability for the homicide.
As a part of its investigation into the viral picture, the PTI Truth Test Desk reached out to the company’s Western Area editor Vilas Tokale, who confirmed that each pictures had been from the posters put up after the encounter of Akshay Shinde, the accused within the Badlapur sexual abuse case, they usually had been unrelated to Siddique’s homicide.
Primarily based on the findings up to now, it’s clear that the viral poster predates Siddique’s homicide. Customers are sharing an outdated picture with a false declare on social media.
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