CLAIM
A video of an ambulance being stopped by the police in New Delhi has surfaced on social media with the claim that it had been done so for BJP MP Manoj Tiwari.
The video, shared by the NSUI Congress Delhi’s official page on Facebook, read: “‘BJP सासंद मनोज तिवारी के लिए दिल्ली पुलिस ने एंबुलेंस को रोक दिया ।
एंबुलेंस मे बच्ची जिंदगी और मौत से लड़ रही थी ।
और अंत मे बच्ची ने दम तोड़ा दिया!”
(Translated: “An ambulance was stopped for BJP MP Manoj Tiwari’s rally by Delhi Police. A small girl was fighting for her life in that ambulance. In the end, she lost her life.”)
The video, posted on 2 April, had garnered over 34k views at the time of writing this article.
The video has also been shared with a similar narrative multiple times on Facebook.
COUNTER-CLAIM
Meanwhile, another user on Twitter has shared the same video with the claim that the ambulance was stopped for a Congress rally.
TRUE OR FALSE?
Both the claim and counter-claim are false. The ambulance shown in the video was neither stopped for Tiwari, nor was it stopped for a Congress rally.
An investigation by fake news debunker SMHoaxslayer revealed that the video is from 1 April 2017. The video was originally shared by one Preet Narula on Facebook, who while on his way to work, noticed that the police had put up barricades near the Rajghat flyover for VVIP movement owing to the Malaysian Prime Minister’s convoy.
The barricades had effectively blocked out an ambulance’s movement, which Narula noticed and filmed. Narwal’s video captured the cops arguing with the public who had let the ambulance pass only for it to be blocked by the barricades. Eventually, the police is seen letting the ambulance through.
The Times of India had also carried an article on the entire incident on 5 April.
(With inputs from SMHoaxslayer)
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