New Delhi: A video has been shared on Twitter to wrongly claim that some Muslim men lynched a Hindu man.
In the video shared Tuesday by a user named Pushpendra Kulshrestha, four-five men can be seen brutally thrashing a man. The video now has over 68,000 views, more than 7,500 retweets and over 8,850 likes.
“Is this not a lynching? The victim is a Hindu and the killers are Muslims. May be that’s why this is not lynching in the view of the intellectuals,” read the text accompanying the video.
Fact check
The video is actually shot in Bangladesh in April 2017, in which a murder-accused named Abu Syed was killed by some miscreants in Comilla district. Syed (28) was accused of killing Awami League leader Monir Hossain. A Bangladeshi digital news outlet had reported about the incident.
The video also seems to be edited as there is a ticker of ‘Breaking News’ that flashes at the bottom, accompanied with comments such as ‘Hypocrite media down-down’, ‘It’s a Hindu, that’s why it’s not mob lynching’, ‘All these don’t come in media’ and ‘Hypocrite media, report such incidents too’.
Repeated misuse
Earlier also, the video has been circulated widely on YouTube, Facebook and WhatsApp with various false claims to stoke communal tension.
Once the video was shared by claiming that a CRPF jawan was being attacked by Kashmiri students in the Valley. The next time it was claimed that Muslims in Nawada, Bihar, were thrashing a Hindu, and another claim was that a Hindu man was being beaten up by Muslims in West Bengal.
In collaboration with SM HoaxSlayer.
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