New Delhi: A video showing a truck unloading garbage onto a road has circulated on social media amid preparations for the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on October 10. Some social media users and news outlets have claimed that municipal vehicles were deliberately dumping waste on roads to prevent protesters from reaching the protest site.

However, the claim is misleading. According to a fact-check by BOOM, the video is from Panipat, Haryana, where sanitation workers staged a protest and dumped garbage at Samidhan Chowk on GT Road on August 17, 2026. The footage does not show municipal authorities dumping garbage in Delhi ahead of the CJP protest.

The video gained attention as security arrangements and restrictions were put in place in the national capital ahead of the demonstration. Images of garbage scattered across a road beneath a flyover prompted online speculation that the waste was being used to obstruct access to Jantar Mantar.

The CJP also shared a video and criticised the alleged dumping. In its post, the party said: “Think about the way garbage is being spread in Delhi, Cowardly government.”

However, the claim that the garbage was deliberately dumped in Delhi to block protesters has not been substantiated by the video. The footage cited in the viral posts relates to the earlier sanitation workers’ protest in Panipat.

The episode highlights how videos from unrelated locations can circulate alongside breaking news and be presented as evidence of events happening elsewhere. The timing of the footage’s circulation, amid preparations for the CJP protest, contributed to claims linking the garbage dumping to restrictions on demonstrators.

The distinction between the location shown in a video and the claims attached to it is important when assessing viral content. In this case, media traced the footage to Panipat in August 2026, rather than Delhi in October.