Fact Check: Video of attack on Hindu temple is not from Bangladesh, know the truth of the video going viral

New Delhi: A video is becoming increasingly viral on social media. In the video, the crowd is seen vandalizing a Hindu temple while raising slogans. It is being claimed that this video is from Bangladesh, where a Hindu temple was attacked. Increasing violence at religious places of Hindu community in Bangladesh news This video is becoming very viral.

What is being claimed?

Prof. on social media platform A user named Sudhanshu Video While posting, he/she wrote, ‘The plight of Bangladesh Hindu temples. Where is international human rights and Indian government, all Rohingyas and Bangladeshi infiltrators should be expelled from India and all business and cricket matches should be stopped. This post has received more than 84,000 views, 2800 reposts and 4,000 likes so far. This user has been there many times before fake video Has been going viral.

Other posts with similar claims Here, Here, Here And Here Can be seen.

Fact check of viral video

To investigate the video, when its keyframes were reverse image searched, several media reports from August 2021 were found. Screenshots of the viral video were found in these reports. According to these reports, this incident of vandalism in the temple took place in the Ganesh temple located in Bhong town of Rahim Yar Khan district of Punjab province of Pakistan.

Pakistani news outlet don According to a report dated August 5, 2021, a 9-year-old Hindu boy was accused of urinating in a local madrassa. When the local court granted him/her bail, the mob vandalized a Hindu temple in Bhong town of Rahim Yar Khan district and blocked the Sukkur-Multan Motorway (M-5).

According to reports, there are reports of an old money-related dispute between Hindu and Muslim groups in the area, which is said to be the real reason for the unrest.

Same video: MP of Pakistani Tehreek-e-Insaf Party Ramesh Kumar Vankwani Also posted on X on August 4, 2021. (archive Link,

After this incident, Pakistan National Assembly passed a resolution condemning the attack on the temple and assured strict action against the culprits.

The then Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan also posted on August 5, 2021 (archive Here) had condemned the attack on the temple and assured that the government would renovate the temple.

Al Jazeera’s one Report It was told that the Pakistan government completed the renovation of the Hindu temple just a week after the incident. 90 people involved in this attack were also arrested.

Other than this, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, India Today And Wire Many Indian media outlets had published reports on the incident of temple vandalism in Pakistan.

What is the truth of the viral video?

Investigation of the video makes it clear that the viral video is not from Bangladesh but about the attack by a mob on a temple in Rahim Yar Khan district of Punjab province of Pakistan in 2021. It has no connection with any incident in Bangladesh. The claim being made regarding the video is also wrong.

(This story was originally published logical factsAnd republished by NBT as part of Shakti Collective.)