A set of images, showing a uniformed woman identified as Delhi Police's Inspector Shivani Chaudhary along with one of activist Sonam Wangchuk, are being widely shared on social media amid the crackdown on the Cockroach Janta Party-led (CJP) protests in Delhi.
Sharing the post, users are claiming that Inspector Chaudhary spoke about Wangchuk calling the police in order to get medical attention, and that they "would never have taken him without his permission."
She is said to claim that Wangchuk woke up and did not find CJP leader Abhijeet Dipke or Saurav Das present at the protest site, and that Wangchuk felt betrayed that he was starving while Dipke and Das were living in a "5 star apartment (sic)."
At the time of writing this report, this claim receiver over 4.3 lakh views.
Dr Radha Mohan Das Agrawal, the National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a Member of Parliament, also shared and amplified this claim through his official X account.
(Archives of more social media users sharing this claim can be seen here and here.)
Is it true?: No, the claim is fully fabricated.
The image of the police official shared in the viral claim is an AI-generated one.
The Delhi Police has consistently maintained that Wangchuk was taken away to the hospital as per the Delhi High Court's orders, not because he asked to be taken away.
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