Fact Check: Claim of rape of Hindu woman in Narayanganj, Bangladesh goes viral, investigation turns out to be false

New Delhi: Amidst the atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh, there are some users who are tweeting with false claims. Recently a video has gone viral on social media. While sharing this, some users claimed that a Hindu woman from Bangladesh was raped and tortured but no one helped her.

What are the claims of the users?

A user named @vinayfast on social media shared a video of a woman claiming that a Hindu woman was raped in Araihazar, Narayanganj, Bangladesh, but no one helped the victim there.

This is exactly what another ex-user @satyagrahindia has also claimed. he/she has also shared the same video in his/her ex-post.

What was found in the investigation?

When Sajjag’s team started investigating the viral video, the claims being made about the video on social media turned out to be completely fake. First of all, Sajjag’s team tried to know about this matter through reverse image by extracting key frames of the viral video. After which the team also found other posts of X. A similar claim was made in all the posts that a Hindu woman was raped in Araihazar, Narayanganj, Bangladesh.

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After that, Sajjag’s team translated the text given in the post into Bengali language and checked it on Google. After that some news reports were received. Amader Shomoy A report related to Eve video was found on the website named. In which it was told that a youth who was preparing for robbery was beaten up by a mob in Narayanganj. Due to which he/she died. While a woman named Lovely has been arrested.

somoy news According to the report, a dacoit named Bilal (45) died after being beaten while preparing for a robbery in Narayanganj. At the same time, a female dacoit named Lovely was arrested in an injured condition.

After this, Sajjag’s team also started searching for video reports related to this matter. After that Sajjag’s team found a report on a YouTube channel named Narayanganj Present.

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conclusion: The claim of rape of a Hindu woman in Narayanganj in Bangladesh is completely false. During Sajjak’s investigation, she was found to be a female thief who was arrested by the police in an injured state. An attempt has been made to give a communal angle to this incident.