Against the backdrop of recent communal violence during the Ram Navami procession across states, a video in which police can be seen escorting a group of women in a van is being widely shared on social media claiming that they were arrested for pelting stones during Ram Navami procession.
The video is shared on Facebook with a Hindi caption, “रामनवमी पे पत्थर फेंकने वाली शेरनियों की विदाई”
(English translation: Farewell to the lionesses who throw stones on Ram Navami)
Here’s the link to the above post.
The video is being widely shared on Facebook with similar claims.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim and found it to be MISLEADING.
A simple Reverse Image Search of keyframes directed us to a Bengali YouTube channel that carried the same viral video on April 16, 2020. The video description reads, “Moradabad police arrested some female doctors in Moradabad yesterday for throwing bricks at them.” Taking a cue from this, we searched further and found another YouTube video channel that carried similar visuals on April 15, 2020.
More searches led us to a news report published by NDTV on April 15, 2020, that carried the same viral video. According to the report, “ A team of doctors and other medical staff were attacked by the locals in Moradabad, a town in western Uttar Pradesh, when they went there to take primary contacts of a COVID-19 patient who died, to a quarantine facility. A police team escorting the doctors was also attacked.” Similar news reports were also published by India Today and The Hindu in 2020.
Thus, it is evident from the above information that an old video is being falsely linked to the recent Ram Navami procession violence.
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