Video Of Injured Sarus In Bareilly Falsely Shared As Bird Rescued In Amethi
By Hazel Gandhi A video of an injured sarus (stork crane) seen at Bareilly junction in Uttar Pradesh is being shared online with the false claim that it is the same stork that was rescued and fostered by Amethi-based farmer Arif Khan Gurjar, and then separated from him by intervention from the forest department. BOOM found that the injured sarus seen in the viral video was unrelated to the one rescued by Gurjar, who is currently in Kanpur Zoo. Gurjar shot to popularity after stories of him nursing an injured sarus back to health for a year went viral online. Videos of the two eating together a...