This video circulated online in 2019 in reports about Indian celebrities celebrating a Hindu festival
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- Published on December 29, 2020 at 10:00
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The video was shared on Facebook here on December 23, 2020.
The post’s caption reads: “Celebrations at Mukeshbhai Ambani's abode to welcome his grandson. So, now it’s patently clear that Covid doesn’t attack the rich & glamorous!! And the law doesn’t apply to them either, including the venerable CM!”
Mukesh Ambani, the billionaire head of Reliance Industries and India’s richest person, welcomed the birth of a grandson on December 10, 2020, as noted here in a tweet from another Reliance Industries executive.
The caption’s CM acronym refers to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who is also seen in the video.
The video was shared alongside a similar claim on Facebook here, here, here and here and on Twitter here, here, here and here.
The claim, however, is false.
A reverse image search on Google with keyframes from the video found that similar footage of the event was published on YouTube here by The Indian Express on September 2, 2019, several months before the Covid-19 pandemic.
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