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Video of Police Laathi-Charge In Mewat goes viral. Read the Fact-Check

Social media is flooded with various types of photos and videos depicting the recent communal violence in Haryana’s Nuh these days. Fierce Lathi-charge by Police can be seen in one of those videos.

Journalist Dinesh Kumar tweeted a video and wrote: “Here, the policemen have given a good prasad to those who created riots in Mewat”.

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Moreover, other users also shared this video with similar claims.

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Fact-Check

To verify the authenticity of the above viral video claiming police lathi-charge against rioters in Mewat, the Dfrac team converted it into some key frames and then reverse-searched it on Google. We discovered this video in one of the tweets of July 13, 2023, claiming BJP workers were protesting in Patna and the police lathi-charged them.

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In addition to that, the same video was also posted by other users on July 13, 2023.

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https://twitter.com/Surya_Maithil/status/1679518465940664322
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 Moreover, the incident was also covered by other media houses

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Conclusion

The Dfrac’s Fact-Check proves that the viral video claiming police Lathi-charge during the violence of Haryana’s nuh is misleading as the video belongs to the incident of bihar where BJP workers were protested in Patna and police lathi-charged them.

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