A Voter Destroys an EVM Control Unit Fact Check: Lok Sabha Elections Voting for the second phase concluded on Friday (26 April 2024). All political parties are now busy preparing for the third phase of voting. Meanwhile, a video is becoming increasingly viral on social media.
What is being claimed?
In this viral video it is being claimed that a voter destroyed the EVM control unit during the second phase of voting.
X post related to this archived version Can be seen here. Apart from this, newschecker also found this video on WhatsApp tipline (9999499044). The sender has requested newschecker to check the facts of this claim. The person sending the video said it was from Karnataka.
What is the reality?
Newschecker performed a reverse image search of the keyframes of the video, which led us to this image, uploaded by News18 on May 12, 2023. Youtube video Found, which said that a voter had destroyed an EVM in Mysore during the Karnataka Assembly elections.
Tell us more about this incident Here And Here Found a news report, which was from May 2023. It was said that during the voting in Chamundeshwari assembly constituency on May 10, 2023, a person who had come to cast his vote had damaged the EVM control unit. He was immediately taken into custody.
The report also contained the statement of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Muthuraj, in which he reportedly said that the man was suspected to be mentally disturbed and a case had been registered against him under Section 84 of the IPC.
What was the conclusion?
After looking at all the facts, it becomes clear that the video which is being said to be of April 26 is not correct. It is clear from many media reports that this video is from last year i.e. 2023.
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