An old photo and a video of people living near railway tracks were used on social media to claim that these were of the recent encroachment drive in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani. A PTI Fact Check, however, found that the photo and video were not related to Haldwani. The image of people near the railway track was from Kolkata and was published in 2013. Similarly, the video that showed the slum areas near tracks was also from Kolkata, dating back to 2017. The PTI Fact Check desk did a Google Reverse Image Search on the photo.
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