Indian Air Force debunks fake news claiming Sikh personnel refusing to perform duties

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) on October 2 in a post on X (formerly Twitter), busted the fake news doing rounds on social media with the claim that the “majority of Sikh pilots and personnel were refusing to perform their duties because of their Hindu seniors insulting them on regular basis.”

An Image with the above fake news was making rounds on social media and the Indian Air Force, sharing the image containing baseless message, said that “the information is not true and has been posted to spread rumours.”

The clarification from the Indian Air Force came in the wake of viral social media posts that claimed that Sikh officers were refusing to perform their duties because their Hindu seniors treated them with disrespect and hurled insults at them.

Social media users claimed that a source from inside the Indian Air Force claimed that a majority of Sikh pilots and personnel are refusing to perform their duties because their Hindu seniors were insulting them on a routine basis.

Indian Air Force and other streams of the Indian military have often been subjected to hitjobs by people and organisations with vested interests, most notably from neighbouring China and Pakistan—two countries that continue to harbour pathological animosity for India and have strategic incentives to undermine the Indian Air Force by enmeshing it in non-existent conflicts and fuelling religious divisions within its ranks.

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