NEW DELHI: An image of Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and his wife Dimple has gone viral. Users claimed it shows the duo paying respects at the burial site of slain gangsters Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf Ahmed, assassinated in Prayagraj, UP, while in police custody.

Some users referred to Akhilesh and Dimple as son and daughter-in-law of Atiq. AltNews found the image shot in 2022, was of the couple paying tributes to late Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav’s father and former chief of the Samajwadi Party.