A tense situation prevails over Haryana over the deadly communal clashes in Haryana's Nuh and other neighbouring districts. Amid this crisis, several false and misleading information is doing the rounds on social media. One such viral video has come to light, which shows a man, which is claimed to be from the Hindu community, being beaten by a group of Muslim men with stones and sticks in Nuh. India TV's Fact Check team began an investigation in this viral video to bring you the truth.
Claim
The video shows a group of people assaulting a man on the road with sticks and dropping a huge piece of rock on him. A verified Twitter user by the name of Gopal Goswami (@igopalgoswami) shared the video on August 2 and captioned, "If you don't wake up at Mewat, then one day you will end up like this."
A tweet claiming the video from Nuh
The video was shared by another user by the name of Narendra Singh (@TheNarendra___), which was captioned, "Look at this, secular germs, this happens when their numbers and population increases. They don't need any government, system, administration, courts or lawyers. They do what they want to do. So think and understand what is in store for you and what will you pass on to your future generation."
Another post on Twitter on the viral video
Subsequently, the video was shared on Facebook by different users, all of which claim that a Hindu man is being assaulted by a group of Muslim persons in the conflict-ridden Nuh district of Haryana.
The video was shared by multiple users on Facebook
Truth
India TV's Fact Check team investigated this claim by reverse searching a frame of this video on Google, upon which we were relocated to an article by the news website 'The Wire'. The article was published on April 15, 2017, and reported that the video was claimed to be an episode of violent attacks against a Hindu man in Bihar in 2017.
The video became viral in 2017 during minor communal clashes in Bihar on April 5 that year, in which three people were injured. A Facebook user named Dhananjay Kumar had shared this video on his profile that a man was "mercilessly killed" in Bihar's Nawada city.
A Facebook post in 2017 claiming the video to be from Bihar
However, The Wire reported that this video actually originates from Bangladesh instead of India. The article mentions that the video was shot in Comilla, Bangladesh and uploaded on YouTube on April 2.
When we investigated further, we found a report by a local newspaper in Comilla on April 2, 2017. On that month, unidentified suspects had attacked two men who were accused of hacking Awami League leader Monir Hossain Sarkar in 2016.
A local newspaper article in Comilla, Bangladesh
The two men were identified as Abu Syed and Mohammed Ali, out of which Syed was killed while Ali was severely injured in the attacks on April 2017.
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