A video of a hijab-clad girl meeting police personnel is being shared on social media with a claim that she is the Deputy Superintendent of Police at Buldana District in Maharashtra.
The Facebook caption read, “Alhamdulillah Muslim IPS girl on the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police at Buldhana Dist. In Maharashtra in full Hijab.“
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above post and found the claim to be False.
By looking at the video carefully, we noticed that girl looked too young to be an IPS officer.
On putting keyframes of the video through Google Reverse Image Search, we found a similar picture in a news article by Deshdoot.com dated March 4, 2020, claiming that on the occasion of International Women’s Day, a 9th standard girl was given a chance to be the Superintendent of Police.
Further, we also found another article in The Times of India dated March 5, 2020, stating that a unique initiative has been taken on International Women’s Day to boost confidence of girls. Nagpur’s Buldhana district police gave an opportunity to two bright students to act as a collector and a superintendent.
Also, we found a video on YouTube, shared by The Times of India on March 5, 2020, covering the same incident.
Moreover, we found a video of the student, Sahrish Kanwal of ZP Urdu High School, in which she herself says that on the occasion of International Women’s Day she was given the post of SP. We found this video on the YouTube channel of The Gulbarga Mirror uploaded on March 5, 2020.
Hence, it is clear that the video is being shared with a false claim.
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