"Morphed": Aviation Minister's Clarification On 'Mistranslated' Airport Sign

"This is a morphed image doing the rounds since 2015," said Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri

Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday tweeted a clarification after an old image of a 'mistranslated' airport sign began doing the rounds of the Internet again, flagging it as fake. "Listen people. This is a morphed image doing the rounds since 2015," Mr Puri tweeted, sharing photos of the sign in question. He further said that the Airports Authority of India (AAI) had issued a clarification on the morphed sign in 2019 as well, when it had resurfaced on social media.  Listen people.This is a morphed image doing the rounds since 2015.It resurfaced in 2019. AAI had pointed this out even then.Let us all do a bit of due diligence before putting such things out.Fake images & morphed pictures don't do any good to people who are posting them. pic.twitter.com/JLKkyT5Fcm "Farsh par khaana sakht mana hai," the sign reads in Hindi, which translates to "Eating on the floor is strictly prohibited." On the sign, however, the translation reads: "Eating carpet is strictly prohibited", with the word "on" missing. The aviation minister's recent clarification on the sign came after the image was shared by a Twitter user this week, who suggested that the AAI needed Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's help to correct the language on the sign.  Responding to the now-deleted tweet, Mr Tharoor had said, "They are incorrigible" - as a screenshot shared by Mr Puri shows.