On the latest episode of his YouTube series Jan Hith Mein Jari, comedian Kunal Kamra raised questions about the conditions of Indian railways, highlighting staffing issues, track renewal budgets, investment priorities and the rising rates of railway-related accidents. Railway Fact Check, the official fact check account of the Ministry of Indian Railways, quickly put out a post with a ‘misleading’ sticker slapped across screenshots of the video and Kamra’s face.

“Certain facts and footage in this video are misleading in nature and is an attempt to sabotage the image of Railways . Kindly refrain from sharing such misleading content,” read the post.

Kamra asked for the handle to clarify which facts were misleading in his video. Railway Fact Check answered his question with a video that highlighted the said factual inaccuracies.

The page corrected Kamra’s claim that nearly 25,000 railway-related accidents took place in the year 2023, stating that there were 24,678 accidents. Furthermore, they said that 21,803 deaths took place as opposed to the 22,000 reported deaths in the video.