Image Of Three IPS Officers Sitting Together Viral As Siblings

(Original text in Bangla: ''শুধু জিনস, সিগারেট নয়...সমান অধিকার, সমান মর্যাদা বলতে এটা বুঝতে হবে সমাজকে। এক পরিবারে তিন ভাই বোন IPS অফিসার!! মেয়ে মানে "কাঁধের বোঝা" নয়, আমাদের উচিত মেয়েদেরকে "বোঝা!" সঠিক সুযোগ পেলে শুধু ছেলে নয় মেয়েও বংশের মুখ উজ্জল করবে!! ছেলেকে আলাদা করে মানুষ, মেয়েকে আলাদা করে মানুষ না করে দুজনকে "সন্তান" হিসাবে মানুষ করুন, দেখবেন একদিন গর্ব করে বলবেন..."ও আমার মেয়ে!")

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Fact Check

BOOM ran a reverse image search on Yandex, a Russian search engine which led us to an Instagram account of Pooja Vashisth. Vashisth, an IPS probationer of the Haryana cadre, posted the image on August 22 in her Instagram profile. The post has been captioned as, "People who make life easier. #mypeople #ipslife #ceremonialwear #khaki".

Shrut Kirti Somavanshi and Tushar Gupta were tagged as Shrutsom and Tusharg_ips respectively in the image. BOOM reached out to Somavanshi (@shrustsom), an IPS officer from the Madhya Pradesh Cadre, who rubbished the narrative associated with the viral image and said that the three of them are neither siblings nor are they related to each other. Tushar Gupta an IPS 2018 batch, from the Punjab cadre, further clarified, "The photograph was clicked in an IPS mess after a training session."

The same photograph has been posted by Tushar Gupta, a 2018 IPS batch of the Punjab Cadre.

Somavanshi and Gupta also shared Instagram stories after BOOM reached out to them to verify the fake narrative doing the rounds with the photograph. Somavanshi wrote, "False information, refrain from sharing."

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