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“Recent video of a group of Railway gang men reprimanding a boy for placing stones on a railway track in Karnataka”
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FACTLY rated thisMISLEADING

What FACTLY found

This is a five-year-old incident that happened near Kalaburagi in Karnataka. Railway gang men near the Kalaburagi railway station caught some boys placing stones on the tracks. They reprimanded one of the boys, who was then made to remove the stones

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

This claim spread on social media. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 6 June 2023. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.

Where the claim appeared

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