FACT CHECK: Picture of demolished mosque is from Gujarat, not Uttar Pradesh

HYDERABAD: A picture of a demolished mosque is circulating on social media. Users claim that the incident occurred in Uttar Pradesh.

Facebook users are sharing the image with the Hindi hashtag '#uttarpradesh'. Twitter users are sharing the image with a similar narrative.

अब लिखो नाइस पिक । pic.twitter.com/zOez7VmxoO

— Thakur_Sahab🆙 😋🤐🤫💯% (@thakurBeerusinh) October 28, 2021

अब लिखो नाइस पिक 😁👇@sanni40529080 💯fb🙏
pic.twitter.com/5gx3OA1qRK

— Sanni (@Sanni40529080) October 29, 2021

FACT CHECK:

The claim is false.

NewsMeter performed a reverse image search and found the same picture in a tweet dated August 7, 2014. The tweet carried three other pictures of the demolition of a mosque with a caption, "Ahmedabad: illegally built Mosque demolished in extended Juhapura Ahmedabad by AMC".

Ahmedabad: llegally built Mosque demolished in extended Juhapura Ahmedabad by AMC -> http://t.co/8GiAuPpQGw -> pic.twitter.com/lZzucptNMC

— Praveen Upadhyaya (@PraveenraoU) August 7, 2014

All pictures in the tweet carried the watermark of "DeshGujarat", an online media organization based in Ahmedabad.

The tweet also carried an article of DeshGujarat published on August 7, 2014. "Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) observed that several illegal structures including warehouses, ice factories, and one religious construction were built over AMC's land reserved for waste disposal plants," the report said.

Therefore, the AMC demolished religious structures and other illegal constructions. The AMC teams arrived at Vishala-Narol road in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on August 6, 2014, with a police force and demolished all illegal constructions.

"DeshGujarat", tweeted the same on August 6, 2014.

In pictures: Illegally built religious structure over AMC land demolished in extended part of Juhapura in Ahmedabad http://t.co/QKz4eSsW3X

— DeshGujarat (@DeshGujarat) August 6, 2014

Therefore, the claim is false.