Brief Outline: Once
again viral message spread on the Internet claiming that Mumbai is under a terrorist attack. In the video, it is
being claimed that this person is the Mumbai police commissioner.
Facts Check: False
What is Viral?
“Mumbai Police
commissioner. Total Mumbai under terrorist attack. Please be careful. All
railway stations. All bars and cinema halls. Auditoriums. All public places.
Please forward to all groups. Jay Hind. Jay Maharashtra.”
Facts Check Analysis: Once again Viral message
spread on the Internet claiming that Mumbai is under a terrorist attack. In the video it is
being claimed that this person is the Mumbai police commissioner.
According to a message that is being circulated
on what’s app, facebook and other social media is that the man is giving
warning to the people that Mumbai is under terrorist attack and request to
forward this message to all groups. The person starring in the video is a man
named Hemant Mahajan . Hemant Mahajan is a retired Brigadier of the Indian army
and several times gave comments on national security issues. He has a YouTube
channel and has appeared as a guest on several TV news channels.
However, according to our report the man
showing in the video is not Mumbai Police Commissioner, the current police
commissioner of Mumbai is Sanjay Barve, and he looks totally different from the
man in the video
If you
see the video carefully then you will find that in the first part of the video,
he talks about bomb blasts. In order to make it seem like Mumbai is under the attack, the video has been cut off in the middle, but in the original video it shows
Mahajan explaining how every citizen needs to keep his or her eyes and ears
open which may further help in preventing terror attacks in the aftermath of
the revocation of Article 370.
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