Unrelated Photos Falsely Shared As Weapons Seized From UP Mosque

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Two unrelated and old photos - one from police investigation and the other from Tumblr have been revived with a communal narrative weapons were seized in a Uttar Pradesh mosque. The post further claims that the Maulvi of the mosque was arrested by UP police. The collage in one picture shows guns displayed on a sofa and the other from a press conference. BOOM found that the picture of guns on the sofa is from a Tumblr post and the other photo is from a 2016 press conference by Rajkot police, Gujarat following a raid at a hotel running an illegal arms racket. BOOM had earlier debunked the same photo when it was viral as weapons seized from a mosque in Gujarat.