A picture of PM Narendra Modi’s late sister-in-law, Bhagwatiben Modi, started doing the rounds on the internet recently with a claim that she passed away in a government hospital on May 8, 2020.
The caption of the picture read: “#प्रधानमंत्री मोदी की #भाभी भगवती बेन मोदी का कल अमदाबाद के सिविल सरकारी अस्पताल में बीमारी से #मृत्यु हो गई वो #प्रहलाद भाई मोदी की #धर्मपत्नी थी
ॐ शांति ॐ शांति”
(Translation- Prime Minister Modi’s sister-in-law Bhagwati Ben Modi died of illness yesterday at Civil Government Hospital in Ahmedabad. She was the wife of Prahlad Bhai Modi ॐ Shanti ॐ Shanti)

FACT CHECK

We fact-checked the viral post and found that it is fake.
When we ran a Google search with keywords like ‘Bhagwati Modi’, ‘Ahemdabad’ and ‘dead’, we came across multiple reports from different news organisations dated May 1, 2019.

According to these reports, PM Modi’s sister-in-law, Bhagwatiben Modi, passed away on May 1, 2019, and not in 2020, as stated in the posts.
She was suffering from diabetes, hypertension and kidney ailments. After she suffered a heart attack on the morning of May 1, 2019, she was taken to Ahmedabad Civil hospital, where she was declared dead at the hospital.
Our investigation proves that Bhagwatiben Modi passed away a year before these posts started doing the rounds on the internet.

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