A Twitter handle called Durga Menon, which is followed by PM Narendra Modi, Power Minister Piyush Goyal and many other senior BJP leaders has posted a video on her Twitter timeline.
The accompanying text says, “DK Shivkumar’s home with just one Locker room opened..Congis whr will u hide ur faces???“. The video posted by this Twitter handle shows a locker full of cash and more bags full of cash on the floor.
This same video is viral on Facebook as can be seen in the video below.
The identical text “Shivkumar home with just 1 Locker room opened” across most of the Facebook posts, also indicates that this video is crazily viral on WhatsApp, and is being uploaded by users to Facebook after they received this video as a WhatsApp forward with the aforementioned text.
In reality, the video that is being passed around is that of an Income Tax raid on T&T law firm in Delhi founded by Rohit Tandon.
In total, 13 crores worth of cash was found in raids on Tandon’s law firm and residences in Delhi in December 2016. The video that is now being shared as cash found in DK Shivakumar’s house, was originally posted by a journalist Shiv Sunny on his Twitter timeline on 10 December 2016.
He posted the video with the text, “Video of over Rs 8 cr cash (Rs 2 cr in new currency) seized by Delhi Police from T&T law firm in Delhi’s GK.“. The video can be seen below.
(This story was first published in Alt News and has been republished with permission. The views expressed here are the author’s own.)
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