New Delhi: New Delhi: A video of a young woman being beaten by a group of men is circulating on social media, with the claim that it’s a group of Hindutva extremists thrashing a Dalit girl.
American journalist and war correspondent Bilal Abdul Kareem tweeted the viral video, stating this was “Modi’s India, where Hindu extremists beat up Dalit women and film it.”
He added that “Allah should guide this woman to Islam.”
This is Modi's India wherein Hindu extremists can beat a poor Dalit woman, film it, & laugh for all to see ! I ask Allah to guide this woman to Islam. And I ask Allah to punish each & every participant in this heinous crime & not to let a single one of them get away pic.twitter.com/2RLHPrgeU8
— Bilal Abdul Kareem (@BilalKareem) January 31, 2023
The Tweet has over 300 thousand views, 3,000 likes, and has been shared over 2,000 times.
In the viral video, a woman is chased by a group of men who beat her up with sticks while she cries for help.
Users also shared the video, claiming that a Dalit woman was assaulted by Hindu extremists for bathing in the river in Madhya Pradesh, noting that “such atrocities do not even happen in Afghanistan.”
Did anybody cared about this👇?
*Indian (RSS-BJP) Taliban's violent rampage in Uttar Pradesh after a Dalit woman took a bath in a river that was polluted, and stripped a woman of her top and brutally assaulted her.
This atrocity does not happen even in Afghanistan.* pic.twitter.com/xfhlcFqVKP
— Mr.420 (@Ahmed_Bash_Raja) January 30, 2023
Some users even tagged Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, asking him to take immediate action.
This is from #BJP ruled state #MadhyaPradesh. CM #ShivrajSinghChouhan Look at this.
A dalit girl is beaten mercilessly for bathing in the river. This is new India of Modi. pic.twitter.com/NqKRnKVWsf
— Kavita Rani (@KavitaBRS) January 31, 2023
Factcheck:
This viral video is originally from June 2021 and is from an incident in Pipalwa village in Tanda, Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, about 130 km from Indore. In the clip, two tribal sisters can be seen being assaulted by their relatives for talking to their maternal cousins on the phone. Many onlookers watched the crime and even recorded multiple videos of the incident.
While the video was shared across Twitter with a false context, claiming a communal angle to the incident, the original incident had no such angle.
According to The Times of India, while the girls, aged 19 and 20, were initially reluctant to file a complaint against the men, they eventually gave their statements at the Tanda police station. An FIR was registered on 26 June 2021.
(In collaboration with SM Hoaxslayer)
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