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Fuller video contradicts Youth Congress claim on Delhi vendor’s stall
The Indian Youth Congress shared a video on X claiming a street vendor's livelihood had been destroyed by bulldozer action, showing a crying man, scattered food and Delhi Police at the scene,…
The Indian Youth Congress shared a video on X claiming a street vendor's livelihood had been destroyed by bulldozer action, showing a crying man, scattered food and Delhi Police at the scene, IndiaTV News reported. A longer version of the same clip later surfaced, and Delhi Police said the shorter video was misleading, stating no demolition or bulldozer action took place and that the vendor himself had thrown his belongings onto the road while resisting a routine enforcement action against an illegal stall obstructing a pedestrian path in Janakpuri. Police said an FIR was registered against the vendor and that he had faced similar action before, according to a police deputy commissioner's account cited in the report.
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Every factual assertion about what happened at the stall comes from Delhi Police: that no demolition or bulldozer action took place, that the vendor threw his own belongings onto the road while resisting enforcement, that the stall was illegal and obstructing a pedestrian path in Janakpuri, and that he had faced similar action before. The Indian Youth Congress's claim rests on the shorter clip it posted on X, and the longer version of the same footage is what the report sets against it. The FIR police say was registered against the vendor is the document that would put this on a record separate from either video.
Source: www.indiatvnews.com
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