Fact Check: Video of crowd in Surat shared as Delhi's Daryaganj area

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A video post is doing the rounds on the internet that shows a crowded market and claims that it is from Delhi’s Daryaganj.
The caption of the post read: “दिल्ली के दरियागंज का हाल देखिए #ArvindKejriwal जी – #Social Distancing की धज्जियाँ उड़ाकर आप दिल्ली के हर निवासी को मौत के मुँह में धकेल रहे हैं मुख्यमंत्रीजी समय रहते संभल चाहिए और अपनी ज़िम्मेदारी समझिए
(Translation- Look at the situation in Delhi’s Daryaganj. #ArvindKejriwal Ji by violating #Social Distancing, you are pushing every resident of Delhi towards death. Please understand your responsibility)

FACT CHECK

NewsMobile fact-checked this post and found the claim made to be fake.
When we put the keyframes of the viral video through Reverse Image Search, we came across a tweet by Surat MLA Harsh Sanghavi, dated April 26, 2020, which had featured the same video.


According to the tweet, the video in question is from Limbayat, Surat.
Hence, it is clear that the video in question is not from Delhi’s Daryaganj but from a market in Surat, Gujarat.

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