The deserted temple is positioned in Pakistan.
A video circulating on social media claims {that a} hen store is operating below a temple in Rahul Gandhi constituency in Wayanad, Kerala.
The video exhibits a small store below a temple-like construction, and a voiceover may be heard saying, “Buddies, that is the Sita Ram temple, and beneath it lies a store. It is a hen store the place hen meat is offered. That is the temple sq., and that constructing there may be the Sita Ram temple. This can be a hen store, and when you lookup, you will see one thing written in Hindi.”
A textual content layer on the video additional alleges that Rahul Gandhi inaugurated the store because it learn, “Get up Hindus, get up, that is Sita Ram temple in Wayanad, Kerala, which has a hen store which has been inaugurated by Rahul Gandhi which is the parliamentary constituency of Rahul Gandhi.”
An archived model of the submit may be accessed right here.
Picture Credit score: (Supply: X/Modified by Logically Info)
Nonetheless, the declare is fake. A video from Pakistan has been shared with the false declare that it exhibits a Sita Ram temple in Wayanad, Kerala.
How did we discover the supply?
A number of feedback on the viral submit that the video was from Pakistan. This led us to a YouTube vlog (archived right here) revealed on a channel named “Makhan Ram jaipal Vlogs” on August 25, 2023, exhibiting a temple with options that match the temple within the viral submit.
The temple proven within the vlog is positioned in Ahmedpur Sial, a city within the Jhang district of Pakistan’s Punjab province, and no Hindus stay round that space. Across the 1:15-minute mark, the vlogger exhibits the temple and the hen store in entrance of the temple. We reviewed the YouTube channel and located that a number of vlogs from Pakistan have been posted.
The identical video was uploaded on the vlogger’s Instagram account (archived right here) on April 17. This reel was circulated with false claims that the temple is in Wayanad. The submit caption states that the Sita Ram Mandir is in Punjab, Pakistan.
Historical past of the temple
An article within the Pakistani newspaper The Friday Occasions options a picture of the Sita Ram Temple. Upon evaluating the picture with a video, we noticed that each depict the phrases “om” and “Sita Ram” inscribed in Hindi atop the temple. The report said that the Sita Ram temple in Ahmadpur Sial tehsil of Jhang district is without doubt one of the landmarks in structure from the nineteenth century in that area. Ahmedpur Sial, a sub-district of Jhang district, was as soon as a Hindu-majority city with a number of temples and different locations of worship.
In keeping with a neighborhood historian, a violent mob attacked the temple following the assault on Babri Mosque in India in 1992. It now not capabilities as a temple and is now a market. A lot of the valuables contained in the temple have been stolen by locals.
The place is the temple positioned?
We positioned the temple on Google Maps and located a number of images of the temple. We in contrast the pictures to substantiate that it’s the similar temple. The temple is completely closed and is positioned in Ahmedpur Sial of Jhang district in Punjab, Pakistan.
The decision
A video of an deserted temple in Pakistan has falsely been offered as a hen store working beneath a Hindu temple in Wayanad. The construction within the video is positioned within the Punjab province of Pakistan and is unrelated to India. Subsequently, we now have marked this declare as false.
(This story was initially revealed by Logically Info, and republished by NDTV as a part of the Shakti Collective.)
