Although many genuine tragic photos, with people in desperate situations from current lockdown, poor traveling on foot etc. are viral but this photo is 3 years old, from Bangladesh, not India.

Viral: A pic of a man carrying a woman on his back while walking on the road is quite viral on all the social media platforms.

Claim: The pic is claimed to be of a migrant laborer who is carrying women and returning back to their cities amid the lockdown enforced due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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The official twitter handle of the Indian National Congress party’s SC wing known as Dalit Congress also tweeted the viral pic.

.@narendramodi जी, क्या आप इनके चेहरे की बेबसी को आप पढ़ पा रहे हैं?
कुछ तो करो सरकार.. pic.twitter.com/9OaAaQ0h4H

— Dalit Congress (@INCSCDept) May 10, 2020

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The tweet by Umashankar Singh (Foreign Affairs Editor, @NDTVIndia, Twice RNG Awards Winner. #MobileJournalism Trainer/Int’nl Awards Finalist. #Satirist.) havebeen retweeted for more than 2300 times, although when someone asked he clarified that he didn’t say this photo was from India.

मैंने कहाँ लिखा है कि भारत की ही है? साद को ढूँढने रोहिंग्या के बीच भी तो जाना पड़ेगा। बहस तो अभी लंबी चलेगी। 🤨 https://t.co/WgalLvzxlm

— Umashankar Singh उमाशंकर सिंह (@umashankarsingh) May 12, 2020

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Srivatsa (Congressman | Politics | Karnataka | Bengaluru | ಕನ್ನಡ | Patriot | Former Techie | Former@INCKarnatakaSocial Media Head | National Campaign in-charge,@IYC) tweeted the same picture along with the group of other images while connecting it with the narrative of migrant laborers returning back to their hometowns from his official twitter handle.

Indian Railways is worse than East India Company

🔸Charged tickets for poor labourers

🔸Rajdhani fares for special trains

🔸Cancellation charge is 50%

🔸Arogya Setu App compulsory for travel

Can these poor people install an app? Shame on you @narendramodi & @PiyushGoyal pic.twitter.com/lJR1efG6Cu

— Srivatsa (@srivatsayb) May 12, 2020

 

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The following tweet has been retweeted for approx 4000 times

No words to describe this.. pic.twitter.com/N5uOaKvLZV

— Aryan Srivastava (@aryansrivastav_) May 10, 2020

 

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A supposedly news portal also carried out this pic in their story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A local news website Aaj ka din used this pic in their article. The headline of the article states that Countrywide Strike On 16 May, In Support Of Farmers, Two Honors And Social Security To Farmers: Countrywide Demonstration Of Farmers On 16 May. Archive

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The photo is 3 years old from Bangladesh, not India.

It is an old image dated 8th November 2017  in an international news agency’s article.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The reverse image search of this image with keywords search led us to the website of international news agency Pressenza’s article on Rohingya Refugees of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This article was published on 8th November 2017 and carried out the issues of Rohingya Refugees in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and carried out the viral pic in this article.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The archived version of the article can be viewed with this link

Therefore in our investigation, it was found that this pic is not related to the issue of migrants returning back to their cities during the lockdown period of covid19. Instead, it is an old pic from Bangladesh and that too from the year 2017.