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Has 128 kg gold been found from the priest’s house in Tirupati? Actually, a video has been going viral on social media for the last few days. In this video, a lot of jewelery is seen kept on a table.
- It is being claimed that it has been recovered from a priest’s house in Tirupati. Many verified and non-verified users on social media platform X have tweeted related to this claim.
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A similar claim was made by an X user named Mr. India. It was written in the tweet – 128 kg gold, Rs 150 crore cash and 70 kg diamonds recovered from the priest’s house in Tirupati, the property which was distributed among the relatives is different, this is a business which is done as financial loot of the people. ,archive tweet)
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- By the time the news was written, 9 thousand people had liked this tweet. At the same time, 4400 people had reposted it.
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What is the truth of the viral video?
To know the authenticity of the video, we reverse searched its keyframes on Google Images. During investigation we found a post by X user named ASHISH.SS. This post was made on August 9, 2022. The post read, ‘Friends, a person on Twitter is spreading false news about gold hoarding by the trustees of Tirupati Balaji and raid by the IT department, in reality this is the work of a thief arrested by Vellore Police. ,archive tweet)
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On Google searching the information given by user X, we found an article from Indian Express. In this article published on December 22, 2021, it was told that a boy named Tikaram had committed this theft incident. Before the theft, Tikaram kept an eye on the showroom for a few days, then dug a hole in the wall and carried out this crime. However, on the fifth day of the incident, Vellore Police arrested this thief along with the goods. ,archive link)
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- It is clear that the claim of finding gold in the house of a Tirupati priest is completely false and misleading. This incident is of theft in a jewelery store in Vellore in the year 2021. The thief was arrested along with the goods on the fifth day of the theft.
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