Social media users are sharing a message across platforms, which discusses claims surrounding India's independence from the British and the conditions of the transfer of power in that period.
Some parts of this message claim:
The Parliament cannot amend the transfer of power agreement, the Prime Minister or the President of India, as per Articles 366, 371, 372 and 395 of the Indian Constitution.
India has been paying "10 billion rupees" as pension to Queen Elizabeth since 1947.
The agreement binds India to give Britain 30 thousand tonnes of beef annually.
The Quint received queries for verifying this viral message on its WhatsApp tipline.
(Archives of more posts sharing the same text on social media can be seen here, here and here.)
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Let's take a look at the claims made in this viral message.
The transfer of power agreement: We looked for the agreement being discussed, but did not find any document by this name.
However, the search led us to a copy of the Indian Independence Act of 1947 on the United Kingdom's (UK) government's website.
Here, we looked for any mention of a pension meant to be paid to the the British monarch but did not find anything to support the claim.
The only mentions of pensions in this Act were related to provisions of pensions to the secretaries of states and judges of federal courts.
Moreover, the Act does not mention any terms for its clauses to remain...
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