As reports of post-violence started emerging from West Bengal following the declaration of state assembly election results, a video of people engaged in a brawl started doing rounds on social media with a claim that Hindus are retaliating in West Bengal.
The caption of the post read, ‘बंगाल के हिंदुओं ने पलटवार करना शुरू कर दिया है। अभी देखना लोकतंत्र खतरे में आ जाएगा ‘
(Translation: Hindus have started retaliating in Bengal. Now they will say democracy is in danger)
Here’s the link to the above post.
More posts can be seen here and here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral post and found the claim to be false.
We took keyframes of the three clips in the video compilation and searched them individually and found that all three clips are old.
Video 1
We put the keyframes from the first clip through Reverse Image Search and found the video on YouTube published on July 13, 2017. The title of the video read, ‘shiv sena v/s muslim in phagwara’
We also found the snapshot from the video in a report by The Indian Express dated July 23, 2016. The headline stated that the violence took place in Phagwara, Punjab between Shiv Sena workers and members from a minority community.
As per the report, leaders from both sides carried out protest marches in Phagwara and both the groups came face to face at Naiyan Wala Chowk and passed comments on each other. Tempers ran high and both sides started pelting stones at each other.
Video 2
On putting the second clip through Reverse Image Search, we found the same video on Facebook uploaded on June 6, 2018. The caption of the video suggested that the incident took place in Karoli, Uttar Pradesh.
Video 3
On putting the keyframes of video through Reverse Image Search, we found a report by The Indian Express dated March 24, 2019, featuring the snapshots of the clip. The headline of the report read: ‘Go to Pakistan’: 20-25 men barge into Gurgaon home, assault family.
The report stated that members of a family in Gurgaon’s Dhamaspur village and guests who had come to visit them were beaten with sticks and rods, allegedly by 20-25 men, who barged into their home and attacked them.
More reports on the incident can be seen here and here.
This proves that all the clips in the video are old and not related to the post-poll violence in West Bengal.
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