Following the recent clash between BJP workers and West Bengal Police over BJP’s ‘Nabanno Chalo Abhiyaan’, a video started making rounds on social media with a claim that the West Bengal Police was throwing country made or ‘desi’ bombs at BJP workers.
“Is it @KolkataPolice is throwing deshi bomb (peto in Bengali) from the rooftop at Howrah on the nobannyo cholo procession?? @MamataOfficial Didi is it done on ur advice?” the post read.

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FACT CHECK

NewsMobile fact-checked the post and found it to be misleading.
We extracted keyframes of the video and put them through Reverse Image Search. The search led us to a tweet by journalist Sreyashi Dey.
In her tweet, she explained that cops were using smoke bombs to disperse the crowd as barricades, that were set up to prevent forward march of protesters, were breached and stones were hurled at the Police.
“Since this video is running on news channels, that’s my Cameraperson & I reporting live from Howrah Maidan today, what is seen in the video is cops using smoke bombs to disperse the crowd as barricades were breached and stones were hurled. We were airing live visuals, ” she tweeted.

Since this video is running on news channels, that’s my Cameraperson & I reporting live from Howrah Maidan today, what is seen in the video is cops using smoke bombs to disperse the crowd as barricades were breached and stones were hurled. We were airing live visuals. https://t.co/k8oFwWLMp2

— Sreyashi Dey (@SreyashiDey) October 8, 2020

“While reporting, first barricades were broken, then stones were hurled, police fired tear gas shells followed by water canon & batons used to disperse the crowd. A gun was seized from the location and crude bombs were also hurled, ” Sreyashi added.
Moreover, we also found a tweet by Howrah City Police clarifying that the police were throwing Tear Smoke Munitions in Howrah after barricades were breached.

A video of police throwing Tear Smoke Munitions yesterday in Howrah is being misrepresented in social media.A police team was stationed at rooftop which used Tear Smoke only when d agitators breached d barricade & started pelting https://t.co/nGWHSYeVHG persons were present there pic.twitter.com/fnglSAgObw

— Howrah City Police (@hwhcitypolice) October 9, 2020

We also found several reports about police using tear gas and lathicharge to control  BJP protesters in Kolkata.

Hence, based on the above information, it is clear that the post in question is misleading.

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