AAP national convenor and New Delhi CM, Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by ED on March 21 in connection with a money-laundering case related to the now-scrapped excise policy. Lighthouse Journalism amidst the calls for gherao and protests found a post being widely shared on social media platforms. An image on X depicted a huge crowd on the streets, it was being claimed along with the image that this picture showed a crowd on the streets of Chennai against Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest. During the investigation we found the viral claim to be false. The image is from the streets of Puri, Odisha.
Claim:
X user Poornima Maurya shared the image on her profile along with the claim.
Check the archive version of the post here.
Other users too are sharing the viral claim.
Investigation:
We started our investigation by a reverse image search on the image.
We found the prompt, ‘Shree Jagannatha Temple Puri’, pop up on the search.
We found the image on wikimedia.
The source of the same led to the X handle of Naveen Patnaik.
The third picture in this tweet was the picture that was being widely shared.
The picture was also used in several media reports.
The reports said: Crowd of devotees during the annual Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath, in Puri, Tuesday, June 20, 2023.
Conclusion: Viral image showing devotees during the annual Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath in Puri in the year 2023, being shared claiming that people have taken to streets against Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest.
