Following the violent protests at Jamia Millia Islamia University on December 15, 2019, over Citizenship Amendment Act, a picture of an injured student also started circulating with a claim that he lost his life during the protests.
Here’s the link to the above post.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above post and found it to be fake.
On December 16, 2019, Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, Najma Akhtar in an official statement said that rumours about the death of two students are false.
“There has been a strong rumour that two students died, we deny this totally, none of our students died. About 200 people were injured of which many were our students, ” she said.
Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, Najma Akhtar: There has been a strong rumour that two students died, we deny this totally, none of our students died. About 200 people were injured of which many were our students pic.twitter.com/3uGAAVJuri
— ANI (@ANI) December 16, 2019
The above information proves that the viral post is false.
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