Fact Check: Now, shootout scene from web series shared as murder of Sidhu Moose Wala
India Today
Social media users have shared a scene from a web series and claimed it shows the murder of Sidhu Moose Wala.
It was reported that 30 empty bullet shells were recovered from the crime scene where Punjabi singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead by unidentified assailants on May 29. Several days after the murder at Jawaharke village in Mansa, the investigators are yet to zero in on the assailants.
Meanwhile, a video has gone viral on social media with the claim that it showed the ambush by the killers on Moose Wala. "Waheguru ji, see how the killers of Moose Wala attacked him," the translation of a Punjabi Facebook post that shared the video read.
The India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found the claim to be misleading. The footage isn't real but clipped from an action series streaming online.
When the keyframes of the video were reverse searched on Google, several YouTube videos were found.
The top result, uploaded on August 31, 2021, was titled "Gangster gun fire attitude WhatsApp status."
Another user, who had uploaded the video on May 27, 2021, had said it showed an attack on Neeraj Bawana. Neeraj is a notorious gangster who is serving his term in the Tihar jail and allegedly has networks across Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan.