Fact Check: Incidents from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh are being shared as being from UP, viral claim turns out to be misleading

New Delhi: A video is being shared widely on social media. In which a man is molesting the girl students coming from the school, after which it is shown in the video that the police is taking a man along. While sharing this 45 second video, users are writing that Abdul used to molest schoolgirls on daily basis. his/her activity was captured in the CCTV camera. The rest of the work was done by UP Police.

What are the claims of the users?

While sharing a reel video on social media, a user named Narayan Jat Panched wrote – Abdul used to tease girls every day while coming to school. One day the incident was captured in CCTV and UP Police took out a procession of Abdul in the market to arrest the culprit.


While uploading the same video on a YouTube channel named Status Perfect, it was written that Yogi Adityanath’s police is in action.

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What was found in the investigation?

When Sajjag’s team started investigating the viral video, the person who was tampering with the video and the person caught by the police seemed to be different. When Sajjag’s team took out the keyframes of the video and checked it through reverse image, the video was found to be edited. Sajjag’s team found an ex-post during research. In which it was claimed that this incident took place in Parbhani, Maharashtra.

After that, Sajjag’s team checked whether any such incident had happened in Parbhani, Maharashtra or not. After this they Dainikekmat A report was received. In which it was told that an incident of molestation had taken place with one of the girl students who was going from the nursing college of the city to the government hospital. As soon as the police registered a case in this matter, within a few hours the accused Mohammad Aslam Mohammad Salim was taken into custody from Dharmapuri in Parli taluka.

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After that, after 17 seconds in the viral video, the police is seen beating a person with a stick. When reverse image search was done by extracting the keyframes of the viral video from here, a report of News 21 was found. In which an excerpt from the viral video was found. In which the police is beating a young man.

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Along with this, another video report was also found, which was uploaded on a YouTube channel named Bharat Samvad TV. In that report, the accused who committed murder in broad daylight over a transaction of Rs 40 thousand in the middle of the city was arrested.

conclusion: The videos of molestation and police action going viral on social media have no connection with Uttar Pradesh. The video of molestation is from Maharashtra and the video of police action is from Madhya Pradesh. Two videos are being mixed and shared on social media with misleading claims.