New Delhi: Two images are being widely circulated on social media which shows a man breaking a woman’s body at the hip in order to transport it in a sack.
Many users who have shared the images claimed that the man shown in the photograph was forced to do it due to unavailability of any government facility to carry the body during the lockdown.
A Facebook page called ‘I Support Vinay Dubey’ had first posted this image Sunday (31 May) with the caption: “Modiji wants an ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ where a son has to break his mother’s hands and feet to put it in a sack and carry because he did not get any facility from the government. This incident is supposed to be from Odisha.”
It has been shared over 8,000 times.
Another Facebook page named ‘Hum Hindustani Hai’ had shared it with the same caption and was shared by over 173 people.
#मोदी जी ऐसे #आत्मनिर्भर भारत बनाना चाहते हैं सरकारी कोई सूबीधा नेही मिलने से अपने #मां के मृतक शरीर के #हाथ पैर तोड़ कर बस्ता में घुसा के ले जा रहा है बेटा,,,यह घटना #उडीसा के बताया जा रहा है,
Hum Hindustani Hai यांनी वर पोस्ट केले रविवार, ३१ मे, २०२०
The photo has since been shared by multiple users and pages on social media platforms.
#मोदी जी ऐसे #आत्मनिर्भर भारत बनाना चाहते हैं सरकारी कोई सूबीधा नेही मिलने से अपने #मां के मृतक शरीर के #हाथ पैर तोड़ कर बस्ता में घुसा के ले जा रहा है बेटा,,,
यह घटना #उडीसा के बताया जा रहा है,#आत्मानिर्भर_भारत#देश_चलाना_खेल_नही_है@prof_shak @Rofl_RavishNdtv @Nagrik18 pic.twitter.com/7udUEJa0fQ
— मोहम्मद साबिर अहमद محمد صابر احمد (@MdSabirAhmad12) May 31, 2020
#मोदी जी ऐसे #आत्मनिर्भर भारत बनाना चाहते हैं सरकारी कोई सूबीधा नेही मिलने से अपने #मां के मृतक शरीर के #हाथ पैर तोड़ कर बस्ता में घुसा के ले जा रहा है बेटा,,,
यह घटना #उडीसा के बताया जा रहा है, pic.twitter.com/sVYsP5RcwK
— Ganesh Raaz (@GaneshRaaz10) May 31, 2020
Fact check
The image going viral is from August 2016. The incident took place in Odisha’s Balasore where two men had to break the body of an old woman at her hip to make it a bundle and then carry it for three km in the absence of an ambulance.
It was the second such incident in Odisha that year, after a man was forced to carry the body of his wife for 12 km in Kalahandi, which had sent shockwaves across the nation.
In collaboration with SM Hoaxslayer
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