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Fact Check: Video claiming ‘Hindu goons are attacking a Christian’ is fake

Nisar Ahmed Siddiqui March 18, 2023 2 min read

A video has gone viral in India with a claim that some Hindutvabadi elements have mob-lynched a Christian youth. A young man can be seen being beaten by some people in the video.

A Twitter user with a name “South Asian Human Rights Watch” wrote along with the video: “Rising trend of mob lynching in India captured on camera as a Hindu mob attacked a Christian. Concerns over communal violence and religious intolerance escalates, the international community must take notice of this situation.”

Source: Twitter

The same video has been shared by another user.

Source: Twitter

Fact Check

To know the truth behind the viral video, the DFRAC team, as part of its investigation, converted the video into many frames and then conducted a reverse search. This search led to finding of a news report of TV 9 news channel. This news report dated 23 December 2022. According to this report, a mob had tried to lynch a Dalit youth in Badodara district, Gujarat. The report said that the Dalit youth was sitting with a woman and after that people beat him. The police, according to report, had also taken five people into custody after this incident.

Source: TV9 Hindi

Connected with this incident, the DFRAC team found a tweet of Congress MLA and renowned social activist Jignesh Mevani who had slammed Gujarat government for attack on the Dalit youth.

Source: Twitter

Besides, many other media outlets also covered the same Dalit-beating incident.

Source: Editor Ji
Source: Indian Express

Conclusion

It is clear from DFRAC findings that the viral video has nothing to do with attack on a Christian youth and that it belongs to a 2022 Gujarat Dalit-beating incident which was widely reported by media. So, the claim of certain social media users is fake.

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