“Video of police digging out a grave to arrest a ‘Peer’ is from India”
What FACTLY found
The video is from Pakistan and not India. In February 2020, a fake Peer in Sialkot, Punjab (Pakistan), was fooling people into paying huge amounts of money, apparently, to perform ‘black magic’. Sialkot is a city in Pakistan’s Punjab state. The person defrauded people saying that he would stay in the grave for 40 days, but he was rather living a life with all basic amenities, and various tunnels dug around the grave. The police in Pakistan dug out the person from the grave and arrested him.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 7 April 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 20 April 2022, 378 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.