Ahead of assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, an image has surfaced on social media platforms showing two men carrying a woman on a two-wheeler with a claim that a son had to carry his mother’s dead body on a motorbike in Uttar Pradesh along with his father.
A Facebook user shared the image with a caption in Hindi that roughly translates to, “It is an appeal to the conscious voters of Uttar Pradesh that they must keep such scenes in mind while voting.”
(Original: उत्तर प्रदेश के जागरूक मतदाताओं से अपील है कि ऐसे दृश्यों को वोट डालते समय जरूर ध्यान करना )
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post and found the claim to be false.
We put the picture through Reverse Image Search and found the same image in a blog post from 2017.
According to the post, a man carried his wife’s body home on a motorcycle after he was denied a mortuary van.
We then ran a keyword search and found that the same incident was reported by Hindustan Times on June 4, 2017.
“Denied mortuary van, Bihar man carries wife’s body home on a motorcycle,” the headline read.
According to the report, the incident came to light from Bihar’s Purnia district, where a labourer named Shankar Sah took the body of his wife Susheela Devi home on a motorcycle after authorities at the district hospital allegedly failed to provide him with a mortuary van.
This proves that the picture came to light in 2017 and the incident happened in Bihar, NOT Uttar Pradesh.
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