Baba Ramdev reacts to rumours about his accident that went viral on Whatsapp

A hoax message of a car accident involving Baba Ramdev on the Mumbai-Pune highway on Tuesday had gone viral on Whatsapp. The messages doing the rounds suggested that the yoga guru along with four others had been injured in a car accident while he was going from Pune to Mumbai. One of the photos show Ramdev on a stretcher.

However, the highway control officers debunked the rumours. An officer told DNA: "No such incident has taken place on the Mumbai-Pune highway. The messages are fake." The photos are actually from 2011, when the yoga guru was taken to a hospital in Bihar after an accident. 

These pictures had gone viral: 

The Yoga guru took to Twitter to bust the rumours and wrote: "Took yog shivir of thousand of yogis in Haridwar today. I am safe and healthy, don't believe rumours." 

Took yog shivir of thousands of yogis in Haridwar today. I am safe and healthy. Don't believe on any rumours pic.twitter.com/6P2KlUXw8l

— Swami Ramdev (@yogrishiramdev) April 25, 2017