“Photo showing Indian Army’s recent ‘Shobha Yatra’”
Social media posts
Claim dated 23 Apr 2022.
FACTLY rated thisMISLEADING
What FACTLY found
The photo is from 2017 and is not a recent one. On 09 April 2017, during polling for the Srinagar Lok Sabha by-election, Major Gogoi- an Indian Army Officer- tied a Kashmiri man in front of a military jeep as ‘Human Shield’ against stone pelters in Jammu & Kashmir
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 23 April 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 25 April 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
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