Fact check: Is Delhi Public School selling masks to students for ₹400?

Origin 

A number of social media posts were claiming that Delhi Public School (DPS) is selling face masks to its students at rate of ₹400. social media posts also mand to go viral and people started sharing m in abundance which also led to DPS branded faced masks to quickly become meme material on internet. post also went viral around time where speculations about reopenings of school with less occupancy have been doing rounds on social media. This led to an uninformed outr amid internet users who deemed DPS to be immoral and greedy to use a pandemic to earn money. Check out what internet users were saying below - 

Delhi Public School criticised 

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But in reality, Delhi Public School has t manufactured any masks which have ir branding printed on m. Mansoor Ali Khan, board member of DPS Bangalore & Mysore, recently sat down for an interview with a news portal where he refuted claims made by social media users. board member stated that schools have been shut as per government orders thus it can only be defined as an act of mischief from some vendor where photo has gone viral from. 

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Khan added furrmore that ne of DPS schools has manufactured masks. Mansoor suspects that a vendor might have done it in order to boost sales. Whereas, board member also states that logo of DPS is easily available on official website thus can be imprinted on masks without many efforts. board of DPS has lodged a cybercrime complaint and also sent a mess to parents to clarify DPS' stand on claim. Read mess below - 

Dear parents, 

It has been brought to our tice thay some ncised are using shcool's name and logo to sell products like masks and sanitizers as precautionary measures for school children. Kindly te that school is t associated with such vendors. Please refrain from falling prey to se anti-social elements who see an opportunity in adverse circumstances. 

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Google Trends analysis

Various social media posts claiming that DPS is selling masks resulted in a number of people searching about same on Google. This led to a surge of search results around topics like 'DPS Mask', 'DPS Face Mask', etc. Check it out below - 

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