New Delhi: A photograph that claims to prove that Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union President Aishe Ghosh is lying about sustaining a fracture during the violence that took place on campus Sunday, is doing the rounds on social media.
Ghosh was one of several students injured when masked assailants entered the JNU campus and attacked students and teachers during a peaceful protest against the recent fee hike.
She fractured her left hand but in the viral image, the cast is on her right hand. Many people on Twitter, including ABVP activist Milind Marathe and rightwing author Shefali Vaidya, shared the image and said that Ghosh was faking the injury. Vaidya deleted the tweet later. These tweets have been retweeted more than 3000 times.
If one types ‘odd even Aishe’ on Twitter then a stream of handles, which have shared the photograph, appear. The tweets claim that on an odd day the fracture is on one hand while on an even day, it is on the other.
Aishe Ghosh – LEFT OR RIGHT ?? #AisheGhosh #LeftBehindJNUViolence pic.twitter.com/tehGXrUkNB
— Rosy (@rose_k01) January 10, 2020
Fact check
The viral photograph of Aishe Ghosh has been horizontally mirrored, which switched the fracture from the left to the right hand. This is evident because the two men behind her, who were originally on her left, appear on her right in the image.
This is not the first time that a photograph has been mirrored to raise doubts about an injury. In October 2019, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had fractured his hand and his image was mirrored claiming that he was faking the injury.
Delhi Police Friday named nine students, including Ghosh, in connection with the violence on 5 January. The police has also registered two FIRs against her for incidents which took place on 3 and 4 January. Ghosh is accused of vandalising the university server room and manhandling and threatening the guards.
In collaboration with SM Hoaxslayer.
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