But when we got down to investigating, we found out that most of these images are old and have nothing to do with the current raids.
On conducting a reverse image search we came across a news report on Tamil daily Dina Thanthi, which also goes by the name of Daily Thanthi, published on 2 November 2019. The article carried the same picture and mentioned that the Rs 2,000 notes, worth Rs 6.5 crore, were recovered from Telangana.
We then ran a keyword search and came across another article published on the same date in Financial Express. This article carried an ANI tweet, which had the same picture.
Clearly, this image can’t be from the ongoing raids as it existed way back in 2019.
On conducting a reverse image search we came across an article on The Economic Times published in January 2017, which carried the same image. The article was titled ‘Notes ban: I-T dept gets over Rs 300 crore declarations under PMGKY.’
We also came across multiple…