The video claiming to show gold being recovered from an air hostess’ rectum is old and not recent!
The video purporting to show gold purportedly retrieved from Surabhi Khatun, an Air India flight attendant, is false and inaccurate. The widely shared video is outdated, having been online since 2023.
Claim
960 grams of gold was recovered from an Air India flight attendant’s warehouse Airhostess Surabhi Khatoon had hidden it in her rectum and was caught at Kannur airport in Kerala. When bungalows, cars, wealth, etc entered the warehouse of songs of women’s empowerment, they were destroyed. What is 960 grams of gold that has sunk even the Titanic?
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Explanation
In the 22-second footage, we see a head nurse assist two or three nurses in helping a person who is lying on a hospital bed to recover gold from the person’s rectum. At last, we see that they were successful in taking out the gold from the person.
This post is shared with a claim stating, “960 grams of gold was recovered from an Air India flight attendant’s warehouse Airhostess Surabhi Khatoon had hidden it in her rectum and was caught at Kannur airport in Kerala. When bungalows, cars, wealth, etc entered the warehouse of songs of women’s empowerment, they were destroyed. What is 960 grams of gold that has sunk even the Titanic?”
Come, let’s check if the viral claims are true.
What’s the truth?
We conducted a relevant Google keyword search like ‘960 gms gold from air hostess’ and ‘Surabhi Khatoon smuggled gold’ and began our investigation. This led us to the news report by India Today dated May 31, 2024.
According to the article, Surabhi Khatun, the flight hostess, was discovered hiding almost 960 grams of gold in her rectum. For allegedly smuggling gold and concealing it in her rectum, she was detained at the Kannur Airport in Kerala, a Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) source said on May 31, 2024.
Then we also made use of the viral video’s keyframes to do a reverse image search. This brought us to a tweet posted on April 24, 2023, by a user using the handle Trevor Rakaki.
This indicates that the footage is older than a year and is misattributed to the flight hostess’s recent gold smuggling event. Though it is true that an air hostess Surabhi Khatun was arrested for smuggling gold in her rectum, the video that is in circulation in the name of her is old and not related to the recent incident.
Conclusion:
As a result, we conclude that the widely circulated film, which purports to show that 960 grams of gold were found hidden in the rectum of Air India flight attendant Surabhi Khatun, is false and misleading. This is an old video and has no link to the ongoing smuggling case of Surabhi Khatun.
