Fake News Alert! No 'Babri Hospital' To Be Built On Sunni Waqf Board Land, False Images Circulated On Social Media

An Image is trending on social media which claims to be a blueprint of Babri Hospital to be built on Sunni Waqf Board's 5-acre land. After fact-checking, the claim turned out to be false.

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After India witnessed the grand Bhumi Pujan of Ram Mandir on 5th August as PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone, social media is flooded with fake news in connection with the Babri Masjid construction. A photograph of a large building with a signboard stating "Babri Hospital" is being circulated on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Also Read|'Ram Belongs To All,' Says PM Modi In Historic Groundbreaking Ceremony Of Ram Mandir | Key Quotes Here It is being claimed that it shows the plan of a new hospital that has been proposed by the Sunni Waqf board to be built on the 5-acre land allotted by the Supreme Court for the reconstruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.

सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने मुसलमान को 5 एकड़ जमीन दी उस जमीन पर मुसलमान फिर से बाबरी मस्जिद नही बाबरी अस्पताल बनाएगा

माशाअल्लाह pic.twitter.com/zFDIdf3ITi — Team shehla Rashid (@ShehlaTeam) August 7, 2020

After fact-checking the image, it turned out that the claim is false and the schema is actually that of the University of Virginia Hospital at Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, and the signboard saying "Babri Hospital" has been edited into the image. The image widely shared on Facebook and circulation started in the backdrop of the foundation stone laying ceremony at Ram Janmbhoomi site. The image also contains two more signs saying "Dept. Of Cancer" and "Dept. Of Corona". While this initially suggested that the photo may have started off satire, the comments and the captions revealed that people sharing the photo fell for the false caption. Two days before the ceremony, Athar Husain, the spokesperson of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) which is responsible for the building of the mosque, told Hindustan Times that the site will not just be used for a mosque but also to build a hospital and a cultural centre. According to reports, a 15-member trust, Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF), will oversee the construction of a mosque, Indo-Islamic research centre, library, and hospital on the five-acre land allocated to the Sunni Waqf Board. The land allotted is in Dhannipur village of Sohawal tehsil in Ayodhya district, 20 km from the site where Ram temple is being constructed.