DeTect: Congress leader’s spat with cop given false spin

A recent viral video features a Congress leader engaged in a heated altercation with a cop. The claim accompanying the video suggests the cop was threatened by the leader when he tried to prevent them from chanting pro-Pak slogans in MP. In reality, the confrontation between former Congress MLA Asif Khan and a cop took place in Delhi last year. Khan had organised a meet in support of his daughter, who was a Congress candidate in the Delhi municipal polls, without obtaining permission from the State Election Commission. Khan was later arrested. No pro-Pak slogans were raised at the meeting.

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