A CCTV footage is going viral on social media. In this video, a young man can be seen being beaten up by a mob. Users who shared this video are claiming that this video is from the Samastipur district of Bihar, where a young man named Mohammad Mustakim was beaten to death by a mob on charges of stealing a bull. People are calling it an incident of mob lynching.
Sharing this video, a user named Shakeel Syed wrote- “Bihar: A young man named Mohammad Mustaqeem was brutally beaten to death by a mob on charges of stealing a bull in Samastipur… The police have registered a case against three unidentified persons, including three accused.” {English Transaltion}
Another user wrote – “How long the abuse * Mohammad Mustaqim has been killed by some people in Samastipur, Bihar, on charges of stealing a bull, if you understand this, then come forward and @NitishKumar @yadavtejashw #justiceFormustaqim this late Mohammad Mustaqim to get justice.” (English translation)
At the same time, another users posted the video with a similar claim
Fact check:
To fact-check the viral video, DFRAC did a reverse image search of some frames of the video. This video was uploaded on the official channel of News18 India on August 3, 2022. According to this news, a young man was attacked with sharp weapons by some people in Hansi, Haryana.
At the same time, on searching this incident on Google, we found a report of Dainik Bhaskar. According to this report- A guy was killed after he barged into his house in Hansi town of Haryana’s Hisar district in the early hours of Wednesday. . The victim was identified as Vikas and was the father of two children. The guy has 21 criminal cases registered against him. He came on parole only a few days ago. The murder was committed due to old rivalry between two groups. Jaiveer Pehalwan, the father of the deceased Vikas, was also murdered. Naina Devi, the wife of the deceased, said that the children also tried hard to save the husband from the attackers, but their number was high. CCTV footage of the incident of entering the house from the wall has been found. The number of attackers is 7 and they entered the house with the help of a ladder, axes, and other sharp weapons in the group.
The viral video was also published in the report of Dainik Bhaskar
Conclusion:
It is clear from the DFRAC fact check that the viral video is not of the mob lynching of Mohammad Mustakim in Samastipur, Bihar. This video is of the murder of a young man named Vikas in Hansi, Haryana. Therefore, the claim of social media users is fake.
Claim: Muslim youth beaten to death by Hindu mob in Bihar’s Samastipur
Claimed by: Social media users
Fact check: Fake
