A day after Mumbai police booked a BJP spokesperson for fear-mongering through a video showing an alive man being taken to the crematorium, a family from Chembur came forward saying the man in the video is their father. Bijay Gupta has written to Bandra police claiming that BMC hospital authorities said his father died in June 2020 but never showed the body’s face.

BJP spokesperson Suresh Nakhua had tweeted a video on April 20 wherein a purportedly dead body covered in a plastic sheet was lying in an ambulance. The video claimed that the person was in fact alive and being taken to the crematorium. Nakhua claimed that the video is from Mumbai. BMC approached Nakhua to know more about the video but he didn’t have any. Bhoiwada cops then booked Nakhua and arrested him. He was released on bail.