check | Video of Chehlum Procession in Delhi Shared as Protest Against Waqf Bill

This video shows Chehlum procession in Delhi and it is unrelated to protest against the Waqf Amendment Bill.

Published: 11 Oct 2024, 11:15 AM IST

A video showing a procession at Connaught Place, New Delhi is going viral on social media to claim that it shows the Muslim community protesting against the Waqf Amendment Bill, 2024.

The claim also states that former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has turned “Delhi streets to Pakistan”.

An archive can be seen here.

(Source: Facebook/Screenshot)

(Archives of similar claims can be seen here and here.)

What’s the truth?: This video is indeed from New Delhi but it does not show Muslims protesting against the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024.

It shows the Chehlum procession that happened on 11 September 2024.

How did we find out the truth?: We performed a reverse image search on some of the keyframes of the viral video on Google and this led us to …

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