A video purporting to show an IAS officer has gone viral, showing a disabled individual crawling and crossing a road after getting out of a car.
UPSC Network (“@upscnetwork4“) shared the video and tweeted that it’s an inspiration to see a disabled individual as an IAS officer. The tweet was made on Nov 9, 2023, which has received an about 298.9k views on X.
Inspiration 👇♥️ pic.twitter.com/f5iIQIjc4I
— UPSC Network (@upscnetwork4) November 9, 2023
What is the Actual Truth About the Video? : Fact
In actuality, he is an advocate named Dharam Singh Jatav, a state minister in the Uttar Pradesh government, and a member of the Disability Advisory Board, not an IAS officer. Many are falsely spreading the video of disbled individial for promoting the IAS exam.
We discovered a YouTube channel named after him, where a number of his videos are available. According to the YouTube channel, Bijnor visited the area to conduct an inspection in this particular video. As stated, there isn’t an IAS officer in the video.
Check out the full video here:
D-Intent’s Fact-Checking Results:
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— D-Intent Data (@dintentdata) November 16, 2023
ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT: A video of a disabled individual crawling and crossing a road after getting out of the car has been shared claiming him to be an IAS officer. The fact is that he is not an IAS officer but an advocate Dharam Singh Jatav, (1/3) pic.twitter.com/szdr3ML3xK
Intent:
UPSC promotion account circulating videos of disabled individuals with false claims to promote IAS exam among novices.
Conclusion:
Claim : A disabled man, claimed to be an IAS officer is seen in a shared video crawling across a road after getting out of a car.
Fact : The truth is that he is an advocate named Dharam Singh Jatav, a member of the Disability Advisory Board, and minister of state in the Uttar Pradesh government, not an IAS officer. We discovered that he has a YouTube channel with multiple videos posted on it. According to the YouTube channel, Bijnor visited the area for an inspection in this particular video.
