No, This Video Doesn’t Show Weapons Being Recently Found in a House in Lucknow

We could traced the entire clip back to at least March 2023.

Fact-Check | The video is old and does not show recent visuals.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

A video of weapons laid on the ground as well as stack of notes kept inside a room is being circulated on the internet as a recent visuals from Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow.

What have users said?: Those sharing the video have uploaded it with a caption that said, "3,000 guns & 20 sacks containing 50,000 cartridges along with $ foreign currency recovered from Hakim Salauddin house in Lucknow."

An archive of the post can be found here.

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This post had gained over two lakh views on X, when this report was being written. Archives of similar claims can be accessed here, here, and here.

What are the facts?: We could trace the entire viral video back to at least March 2023 and reportedly shows Taliban discovering weapons and money in Afghanistan.

How did we find that out?: On conducting a simple reverse image search on the keyframes of the viral clip, we found the same visuals shared on an X handle named 'Graham Allen'.

• It was published on 26 March 2023 and its caption said, "BIDEN LEFT ALL OF THIS TO THE TALIBAN."

• This pointed towards the possibility of the video being captured in Afghanistan.

Older versions: We found an older version shared on X that showed similar visuals of arms being laid on the ground.

• It was shared on 16 August 2021 and its caption said, "tons of #US weapons seized by #Taliban."

• A comparison between the first few keyframes of the viral clip and visuals available in the 2021 video showed that both of them were from the same incident.

• We could not find older versions of other footages seen in the viral clip.

A comparison clearly shows several similarities.

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News reports: Media organisation WION, too, had shared similar visuals on their official YouTube channel claiming that they were shot in Afghanistan.

• The video was posted on 19 August 2021 and its title said, "Gravitas: These American weapons are now in Taliban's hands."

The video was posted on 19 August 2021.

(Source: YouTube/Screenshot)

About the Lucknow case: As per a Bhaskar English report, the Uttar Pradesh Police recovered cartridges, weapons, and illegal weapon-making materials from the house of a man named Hakim Salahuddin.

• The report mentioned that Salahuddin is currently in custody and being interrogated.

Conclusion: While we could not independently verify the context or location of the video, it is clear that the viral clip is old.

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