Delhi Cop Patrolling During Protest Is A RSS Worker? A FactCheck

Fact check

An analysis of the facial features of the police officer and the RSS member clearly show several differences. We were able to ascertain that the police officer is an inspector rank officer in the Delhi police department while the RSS member is a BJP leader from Rajasthan.

WHO IS THE MAN IN THE POLICE UNIFORM?

BOOM was able to confirm from Chinmoy Biswal, Deputy Commissioner of Police, South Delhi, who identified the police officer as Vinod Narang, station house officer, Connaught Place police station. We further confirmed this designation from past media reports and Narang's face also bears similarities to pictures on his social media profile.

We then reached out to Narang who said that the viral video shows him patrolling during the protests at Mandi House. He explained that his name badge had been misplaced while rounding up protestors and the video was shot soon after. When asked if Narang had any political affiliations or had ever been a member of the RSS, he denied the same. "I don't have any political affiliation, let alone being a member of the RSS"

IMAGE OF RSS WORKER IS OF RAJASTHAN BJP MLA

The viral image shows three men standing in RSS uniforms. Om Birla, the current speaker of Lok Sabha can be seen along with the man circled as the RSS worker and misidentified as the police personnel from Delhi Police. BOOM ran a relevant keyword search on Birla's public posts and found the same man pictured with him in multiple photographs. We then looked up for RSS workers in Rajasthan and were directed to one Ashok Dogara, MLA from Bundi, Rajasthan, the same man, who can be seen in the photos.