Fact-Check: Woman in hospital bed misidentified as Poonam Pandey

The image has been shared on Facebook and Twitter both. 

यह C ग्रेड की पूनम पांडे है जो अक्सर अपने उल जुलूल हरकतों से सोशल मीडिया पर चर्चा में बनी रहती हैं यह हिंदुत्व और हिंदू देवी देवताओं पर भी अभद्र टिप्पणी करती रहती है
फिर सेकुलरिज्म के ज्यादा चुल्ल मचने पर इन्होंने शमशाद अली उर्फ सैम बॉम्बे से निकाह किया यह भूल गई कि शमशाद अली pic.twitter.com/98ATMnFWcl

— मुंगेरीलाल (@mungeri89_lal) November 10, 2021

Fact-Check: 

We performed a reverse image search on the picture and found that a video of the same victim was posted in 2018. The video states that the woman in the video is “Arsha Pandey” .

But we also found news reports on the same woman and as per Dainik Jagran the woman in the image is indeed ‘Arshi Pandey’. She was injured when a group of unidentified men entered her house in Halwani, Uttarakhand resulting in the death of her mother Poonam Pandey (not the actress) and their pet dog. 

Since the image used is not of Poonam Pandey, this claim is false.