By Oishani Bhattacharya

A video showing several rows of tables and chairs set up blocking a road for Iftar is being widely shared on social media with the claim that the visuals are from Kolkata, West Bengal.

An X (Twitter) user shared the video on April 7 with a caption in Hindi that can be translated to: “After Namaaz on the road, here is Iftar party on the road. The video is from Kolkata, West Bengal.

#NamoAgain2024”.

https://twitter.com/VimeshPandya/status/1776999244974678331?t=Mn9WK_K-Fs-CHa3PjvLdyw&s=19

Alt News received several requests on WhatsApp to check the authenticity of the viral video.

Several other users shared the viral video with the same caption on Facebook and X.

Fact Check

We ran a reverse image search and found a news report from India Today dated April 1 which carried a screengrab from the viral video. The report mentioned that the Iftar party was organized at Mudipu Junction in Mangaluru in the Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka.

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