An old video of a young girl talking about her home being razed by tractors is going viral on the internet as a recent incident following the violence in Haryana's Nuh. On July 31, there was widespread violence in Haryana's Nuh during a religious pilgrimage. After this violence, the state government took action and got bulldozers to raze the illegal constructions of many of the accused.
A total of 393 people have been arrested and 118 others detained so far in connection with the communal violence in Nuh.
Many videos related to Nuh violence are going viral on social media. Many of these videos are being shared with fake or bogus claims.
One such video is going viral, in which a girl is seen crying. The video is being shared with the claim that this girl's house in Nuh was demolished and she is now homeless. When the India TV Fact Check team investigated this video, the truth came to the fore.
The India TV Fact Check team observed that the video is from June this year in Delhi and is irrelevant to the violence in Haryana.
Claim
A Facebook user named Tauqeer Ahmed has shared the video. The video is being shared with the caption, "A poor #Muslim girl from #Nuh, #Haryana talking about his pain after her house demolished by authorities. #HaryanaViolence."
The 59-second video In this, the girl says that she studies and wants to become a doctor. When the reporter tells her that now the house is broken, the girl says, "The future is also broken." Can't buy a new house, parents don't earn enough to live on rent. So we stayed on the footpath for the whole night, and an aunty had given us one or two rotis. All the books were also buried in the house; no items were allowed to be taken out at the time of demolition.
Many people are sharing this video with the claim that, after the Nuh violence, she has become homeless due to the bulldozers of the administration on the illegal houses of the miscreants. People on social media are making this video viral by telling it of Nuh.
India TV did a fact check
When we looked carefully at this viral video, we found the microphone of Lallantop, a digital news organisation. Then we started searching on Google with search keywords like 'bulldozer lallantop' and many videos surfaced. In the list of these videos, a girl in yellow clothes was seen on the second number, whose face also looked like the girl seen in the viral video on Facebook.
Original video
During our investigation, we found the original video on Lallantop's YouTube channel. This video was uploaded on June 19, 2023. The violence in Haryana's Nuh took place on July 31. That is, this video is about a month before the bulldozers started the Nuh violence.
When we saw the original video, we came to know that demolition work was done on slums in Priyanka Gandhi Camp, located in Vasant Kunj, Delhi. During that time, the authorities demolished the temporary houses of several families living in the Priyanka Gandhi camp near Vasant Kunj, leading to the displacement of the families living there. In the video, slum dwellers claimed that they were not even allowed to remove their belongings and were verbally abused by the police when they insisted on it.
Bulldozer action in Delhi's Vasant Kunj
More than 500 people lived in this camp built in Delhi's Vasant Kunj for almost a decade. The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) continued with its work despite the Delhi High Court's stay in the demolition proceedings. The land, which was earlier occupied by the camp, has now been allotted to the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). On the morning of June 16, 2023, the NDRF reached the spot with a large number of Delhi Police, Paramilitary Force bulldozers, and several trucks and took these people out of the slums and bulldozed their homes. These people had been living here for more than 10 years.
In India TV's Fact Check, this video purported to be of bulldozer action after the Nuh violence turned out to be misleading. This video is actually about a month before the Nuh violence after the demolition in Delhi's Vasant Kunj.
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