A video of a young boy on a ragpicker cart carrying bundles of 500-rupee demonetized notes has gone viral on social media, with claims that the video is from Pakistan, alleging that Pakistani children are playing with Indian banned currency.
I am not Khan tweeted, ‘Demonetized Indian currency on roads of enemy country Pakistan, Now tell me how Modi kicked Pakistani and it’s economy in to roads. This what they call Chidambaram notes.’
KSM Kumar stated, ‘Children in Pakistan are playing with banned Indian currency notes due to demonetisation. Can you imagine if demonetisation had not taken place all these notes would have been in circulation in India.’
Sanjay Kumar, Debashish Sarkar, CA Ashok Rai and R Sahu also shared the video.
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We began our fact-checking process by conducting a reverse image search of the video. This led us to an Instagram account belonging to Akhi Mishra, where he posted a video featuring children carrying bundles of demonetized notes.
Upon further investigation of Akhi Mishra’s Instagram account, we discovered that the location was based in India.
Additionally, we found another video on his account in which he thanked viewers for watching and helping the video reach over a million views.
In another video, the content creator expressed his gratitude to the children from the original video. A car was visible in the background, and we took a screenshot of its number plate. Although the image was slightly blurry, we enhanced the contrast using image editing tools, which revealed the number as UP32EC7322.
A quick search on Google showed that UP32 is the RTO code for Lucknow.
| Claim | 500 demonetized Indian currency on roads of Pakistan |
| Claimed by | Social media users |
| Fact Check | The viral video is from India and most likely from Lucknow (U.P) |
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