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By Srijit Das A video of cricketer Virat Kohli participating in a Ganesh Chaturthi event last year has surfaced with a misleading claim that it shows visuals of him being present at the Ram Mandir consecration ceremony in Ayodhya on January 22. Hindi newspaper Dainik Bhaskar and Gujarati newspaper Divya Bhaskar also used a screengrab from the now viral video in its different editions, published on January 23, 2024, further amplifying the false claim. BOOM however found that the video is from 2023. We also reached out to an official photographer covering the consecration ceremony in Ayodhya who…