Fact-checkers have set out the facts of a case being misrepresented online. On April 12, 2023, four soldiers of the 80 Medium Regiment of artillery were shot dead while asleep in their rooms near the officers’ mess at the high-security Bathinda military station in Punjab. The accused, gunner Desai Mohan of the same regiment, was arrested. Bathinda Police recovered 19 empty shells from the scene. According to a Hindustan Times report updated on August 4, 2024, a general court martial held at the Bathinda base found him guilty, sentenced him to life imprisonment and dismissed him from service. The incident is more than three years old, and the accused was tried and punished through the military justice system. Recycling past tragedies within the armed forces without context to suggest new incidents or a cover-up is misleading and unfair to the families of the soldiers who died. Such claims should be checked against credible reports before being shared.