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Many social media users are sharing two photos showing sex toys and condoms scattered on the floor with a claim that these were found inside a girls' hostel in Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University ( JNU ) campus post the violence that ensued there on January 5, 2020.A Twitter user who goes by the handle 'MaheshNayak221' shared the two photos with a caption in Hindi that loosely translates to, "Stuff scattered inside girls' hostel after vandalism in JNU. Students here are great. Feeling very sad seeing their torn books."We found the same two photos being shared by many other users, both on Facebook and Twitter, with the exact same caption.Both the photos are old and have nothing to do with JNU, girls' hostels there or the violence that happened inside the campus on January 5, 2020.A simple reverse-image search on these photos on Google will lead you to the truth.Image 1We found the photo posted on Imgur.com on February 1, 2018. Titled 'Room of dildos', the photo caption said, "I inspect foreclosed homes and this is a room I walked into recently."Image 2We found the photo linked to a post made on Reddit four years ago. The post titled 'So I dug through the dumpster for sex toys today' has a link to the photo above. The photo is hosted on Imgur.com. Times Fact Check has found that two old, random photos of sex toys and condoms are being shared widely on social media platforms with a claim that these were found inside a girls' hostel in JNU post the violence that ensued in the campus on January 5, 2020.