A video that appears to show huge wads of cash being confiscated has been viewed thousands of times in Twitter and Facebook posts that claim it was filmed when authorities raided the house of a local opposition party leader in Gujarat in western India. This is false: Gujarat police told AFP no such raid has been recently carried out. The video actually shows a raid at the house of a businessman charged with mobile gaming fraud in Kolkata, local police separately told AFP.

The video has been viewed over 2,500 times since it was shared here on Twitter on October 5.

The video's caption sarcastically states the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) -- an Indian government body that investigates financial crimes -- raided the house of "Aam Aadmi Party leader Shekhar Agarwal".

Keyword searches did not find an AAP party leader with the said name.

The Hindi-language caption translates as: "In Gujarat's Surat, there has been a raid by ED at the house of an honest leader of the country's most honest party Aam Aadmi Party -- Shekhar Agarwal.

"Seeing this amount, you will get an assessment of their honesty and their preparation for elections."

The 36-second video shows several people counting notes with machines while a large amount of cash can be seen in a room.

Screenshot of the false post, taken on October 10, 2022

The video surfaced ahead of state assembly elections in Gujarat in December.

The local opposition AAP led by Arvind Kejriwal is vying to knock out Bhupendrabhai Patel from the...

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