A video of Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar is getting viral on social media. Users on social media are claiming that Akshay Kumar is expressing his grief over the incident of Two Kuki women being paraded naked by the mob in Manipur.
The 26-sec video of two Kuki women being paraded naked by the mob in Manipur has sparked widespread indignation on social media platforms ever since its release.
A verified account by the name of HBTV news posted the video on Twitter and wrote: “Akshay Kumar spoke on Manipur Incident”.
An account by the name of Latturam posted the same video on Twitter and wrote: “Akshay Kumar Speaks About #ManipurViolence #Manipur #shameful #Manipur #नरेंद्र_मोदी_इस्तीफा_दो #मणिपुर #SupremeCourtOfIndia #ManipurViolence #viralvideo”
Fact-Check
To verify the claims of the above viral video, the Dfrac team converted it into some keyframes and then reverse-searched it on Google. We found this video on Akshay Kumar’s Twitter official account which was posted on January 5, 2017 with the caption: “The Bangalore incident makes me feel we r evolving backwards,from humans to animals,rather beasts coz even animals are better!Truly shameful”. The video’s duration was 2:20 minutes.
Whereas the video uploaded by other Twitter accounts is 1:07 minutes long. Not only this but in the viral video, we can also hear Akshay Kumar mentioning Bengaluru at 0:38 seconds, indicating that he is expressing his grief at the Bengaluru incident, not at the Manipur incident.
In addition to that, we found news published by a news website ‘News Nation’ with the headline: Akshay Kumar said on the Bengaluru molestation case, ‘Blood boils, ashamed, Being human”. In this news, News Nation revealed: “Akshay Kumar got furious over the molestation incident in Bangalore. He posted a video venting his anger on social media. Akshay said that after seeing this incident, he is ashamed of being a human being”.
What was the incident?
A girl was molested by some ruffians while going home during the 2017 New Year celebrations in Bengaluru. As she tried to save herself from ruffians, they pushed her on the road and escaped on a scooter. The incident had triggered strong reactions across the country.
Conclusion
The Dfrac’s Fact-Check proves that Viral Video of Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar is not associated with violence in Manipur. In fact, it is related to the Bengaluru incident of 2017, Therefore, the social media users’ claim about viral video is false and misleading.
