A video is being widely shared on social media in which a few women can be seen climbing down from what looks like a shop.
It is being claimed that when these women went shopping, the authorities sealed the shop due to the lockdown and they were stuck inside.
The caption of the video read: “SHAME ON POLICE DEPT. IN LOCKDOWN TIME WHAT’S DOING POLICE ???? HOW THE SHOP OWNER OPEN THE SHOP IN LOCKDOWN PERIOD?????
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Aaj ki taza khabar yeh aourton ko shopping ke baghair mout ajaty, lock down mein police ne owner ko baher karke showroom ko lock kardiye, lekin yeh ladies ooper store mein chup gayee thein baad mein balcony se tamasha dekho.”
Several Facebook users share the same video with the same claim which can be seen here, here, here and here.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above video and found that the claim attached to the video is untrue.
We extracted keyframes from the video and put them through Reverse Image Search. The search led us to a post featuring the same video dated June 2015.
According to the caption, the video is of sex workers fleeing after Pakistan’s FIA (Federal Investigation Agency) conducted a raid in Karachi.
On digging further, we found a report by Pakistan’s local news channel ARY News dated June 13, 2015.
Hence, the above information establishes that the video in question is five years old and it has no connection with the ongoing lockdown due to COVID-19.
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