“A video of singing school girls dressed in burkha has gone viral on social media with claims that Hindu and Sikh girls are also forced to wear the burkha. But we found the claims to be false.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 4 Apr 2019.
BBC Hindi rated thisFalse
In short
This claim spread on social media around 4 April 2019. BBC Hindi (India) looked into it and published its finding on 6 April 2019, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Post on Xhttps://twitter.com/squintneon/status/1113442343200284672
- limportant.frhttps://limportant.fr/infos-monde/3/t/1408576
Links recorded by BBC Hindi. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by BBC Hindi, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.