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“The government is giving Rs. 500 for sending photographs of wrongly parked vehicles”
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FACTLY rated thisMISLEADING

What FACTLY found

There are no reports about the government offering Rs. 500 for submitting photographs of wrongly parked vehicles. This viral video shows comments made by Gadkari in jest during the inauguration ceremony of the Industrial Decarbonization Summit 2022 on 16 July 2022. After highlighting the context that wrong parking is a significant menace, Gadkari humorously stated, “I am going to bring a law under which a person sending a photograph of a wrongly parked vehicle will get Rs 500 if the total fin...

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 5 March 2024. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.

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