On July 17, two Army personnel identified as Captain Anand and Naib Subedar Bhagwan Singh were killed in an accidental grenade blast along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Captain Anand was a resident of Naya Gaon village in Khagaria district of Bihar, while Naib Subedar Bhagwan Singh was from Pokhar Bhitta village in Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh.
In this backdrop, a video surfaced on social media claiming that it was the funeral and last rites of Captain Anand.
The video was shared with the Hindi text: “जय हिंद आनंद सर” (Jai Hindi Anand Sir), while the embedded in the video reads: “खगड़िया जिला, नयागाँव” (Khagaria district, Naya Gaon).
The above post can be seen here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post, and found it to be misleading.
We first broke the video into few keyframes and started searching through the reverse image tool on Google. Here, we found the full video of the viral clip on YouTube, which was uploaded on December 4, 2021.
As per the video description, this video is of 22-year-old martyred jawan Lokesh Kumawat, who was a resident of Mawta village, Kalukheda police station, in Madhya Pradesh.
A similar video — uploaded in October 2021 — was also found, claiming that it was the funeral of martyr Harish Parmar from Gujarat’s Kheda district.
NewsMobile independently couldn’t verify the location of the video.
Hence, it is clear that an old video is being shared with misleading claims.
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