South Indian woman wails as officials prepare to remove Shivling, video goes viral

A video posted on Azaad Bharat's Facebook page shows an elderly South Indian woman wailing around a Shivling as police, workers and a crane prepare to remove the sacred statue from the middle of a ground.

The emotive footage recently went viral on social media with captions that Kerala's communist government was razing down Hindu temples. It goes without saying the video attracted angry comments, some of them expletives directed at the state's CPM-led Left Front administration.

But India Today’s Viral Test proved that the location on the video was wrongly stamped apparently to generate Hindu disaffection with Kerala’s government. The footage, the Viral Test found, in fact originated from Tamil Nadu.