Update: "Facebook denies it conducted physical verification of users in India for posting political content" (FB)

Most of the commenters glommed onto the privacy issues raised when the wire service reported this event but a couple of the more astute observers went deeper, into the question of proving you are you.

From Business Insider India:

Social media giant Facebook has denied media reports that it conducted physical verification of users posting political content.

A Facebook spokesperson told LiveMint "it does not conduct any form of physical verification in India, except for an advertiser who plans to run ads related to politics or issues of national importance in India."

Earlier, a report by IANS cited one Facebook user in New Delhi who claimed he was recently visited by a Facebook representative for the verification process related to the content the user had posted.

According to the user contacted by IANS, “It was like cops coming to your door for passport verification. The Facebook representative asked me to prove my credentials by asking for my Aadhaar card and other documents to understand if I am the one who had posted the political content," the person who did not wish to be named told IANS.”

Facebook has been increasing the level of authentication for political advertisers in India ahead of the general elections in 2019. Advertisers in India will have to send scanned documents to verify their identity in order to post any political ads.

Facebook, facing the election heat in India and unable to stop misinformation and fake news circulating on its platforms, is busy doing something never heard of: Sending its representatives to users' home to verify if the post with political content was actually written by them..... MORE

Interestingly the link in the second paragraph is to Mint which is a sister paper to The Hindustan Times who went with the IANS report.

Yesterday:
UPDATED—Facebook is Making In-Person Visits To Verify ID's (FB)

Earlier today the Business Standard also ran the story

For its part the most recent IANS report on Facebook is:

Facebook 'morally bankrupt pathological liars'(11:28)
Wellington, April 8 (IANS) New Zealand's privacy commissioner John Edwards has labelled Facebook as "morally bankrupt pathological liars" after the social media platform's CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to play down the Facebook livestreaming of Christchurch shooting that killed 50 people.

Other than that they haven't amended, corrected or retracted the original story:

Facebook does physical verification of Indian user for post (2nd Lead, IANS Exclusive)(21:50)
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Facebook, facing the election heat in India and unable to stop misinformation and fake news circulating on its platforms, is busy doing something never heard of: Sending its representatives to users' home to verify if the post with political content was actually written by them.