Fact Check: Claim of offering namaz in open in Maharashtra turned out to be misleading, investigation found video to be from Telangana

New Delhi: A video of people offering namaz in the open is going viral on social media. While sharing this video, users are claiming that this video is from Maharashtra. Let us know how much truth is there in the claims of the users?

What are the claims of the users?

While sharing the video of people offering Namaz, an X handle named @KreatelyMedia on social media wrote – This scene is from Maharashtra.

While sharing this 25 second video, a user named @Saba_speak also wrote – The most beautiful moment when we are remembering our Allah, this scene is not from anywhere else but from Maharashtra.

What is the truth of the viral video?

To investigate the video going viral on social media, when Sajjag’s team took out the keyframes of the video and checked it through reverse image, many other X-posts were found.

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However, after that Sajjag’s team started searching for any media report related to this video. After some time a Facebook post was found. Which was matching the viral video to a great extent. However, it was written in the caption of this video that the video of Tablighi Jamaat had gone viral and hashtags of Telangana and Hyderabad were used.

After that Sajjag’s team got a video report of Hyderabad Deccan NEWS. In which it was told that the scene of Shankarpali Tablighi Ijtema is very beautiful. This Ijtema will end on Sunday.

After that siasat.com A report was received. In which a traffic advisory was issued regarding this group. It was told in that report that in view of the Ijtema program at the Guest Ground in Shankarpalli, Hyderabad Police has issued a traffic advisory from January 3 to 5.

conclusion: The video of offering Namaz going viral on social media is not from Maharashtra. During Sajjak’s investigation, the viral video was found to be from Telangana. This video is being shared with misleading claims.