A video showing two child ragpickers waving around bundles of old, demonetised 500 rupee notes is being widely shared on social media, where users have claimed that it shows visuals from Pakistan .

The claim: The post is being shared with text reading, "Our old Indian 500 rupees notes in Pakistan. Now people will understand why our beloved PM Modi Ji called for Demonitisation... (sic)."

(Archives of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here , here , here , and here .)

Is it true?: No, the video is from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, making the claim about old notes being found in Pakistan false .

How do we know?: To start with, we ran a search with the keywords, "Child ragpickers find Indian notes" on Google.

This led us to a report dated 31 December 2024, shared by F

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