Claim: Police awareness message alerting people to be wary of beggars.
Fact-check: This purported message of former Delhi Commissioner BS Bassi alerting people to be wary of Beggars is fake - FACTLY
Verdict: the message shared in the post is being shared on social media at least since 2015. bhim sain bassi had retired as delhi police chief in february 2016. he then served as a member of upsc till february 2021. former police commissioner of delhi bhim sain bassi did not release any such message warning people to be wary of beggars. multiple versions of this message went viral on social media attributed to different state police. hence, the claim made in the post is false.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Dilip Kumar Sripada
Date published: 2022-07-28T08:20:03