ADDITIONAL DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, UNNAO ASP CALL OUT VIRAL CLAIM
Speaking to The Quint‘s WebQoof team, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Unnao’s Additional District Magistrate said that the viral claim is false.
Meanwhile, Shashi Shekhar Singh, Additional SP, Unnao, told us that the claim is absolutely false. “It’s mischievous and unscrupulous,” he said.
“The structure that you see being demolished, is a non-religious building that was built on the land of the Department of Irrigation, Uttar Pradesh, after encroachment. Strict legal provisions were followed during the demolition of the encroached property,” he added.
We also spoke to a local reporter Gaurav Sharma who, too, said that there is no religious site at the spot and that the structure seen in the viral video is the “entrance of an illegal society developed by a local property dealer”.
Evidently, social media users falsely claimed that the video showed a mosque being demolished in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh.
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