A video exhibits a lathi cost throughout protests over a court-ordered survey in Sambhal.
A video going viral on social media (right here, right here, and right here) exhibits a bunch of protestors being overwhelmed by males in uniform. The publish claims the footage exhibits a lathi cost throughout latest protests towards a court-ordered survey on the Mughal-era Jama Masjid in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh. Let’s confirm the reality behind the video on this article.
The archived publish might be discovered right here.
Declare: A video exhibits a lathi cost throughout protests over a court-ordered survey at Jama Masjid, Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh.
Truth: The video dates again to twenty December 2019, when the police clamped down on protesters who threw stones at them in the course of the anti-Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) protests at Nakhass Chowk in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. The video is unrelated to a latest protest in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh. Therefore, the declare made within the publish is Deceptive.
A reverse picture search of the keyframes from the viral video led to a Fb publish (archived) from January 2020 that includes the identical video in higher decision. This 2020 publish claims it exhibits police lathi cost throughout anti-CAA (Citizenship Modification Act) protests in Uttar Pradesh. An additional search led us to a YouTube video from December 2019 with related visuals linked to police motion throughout anti-CAA protests.
Taking clues from the outline within the Fb publish, we performed a Google key phrase search that led us to a information report (archive) revealed by the Stay Hindustan YouTube channel on 20 December 2019, titled “Gorakhpur: Two injured in stone pelting, lathi cost throughout protest towards CAA.” In line with the report, police clamped down on protesters who threw stones at them in the course of the anti-CAA protests at Nakhass Chowk in Gorakhpur on 20 December 2019. The video exhibits the identical police lathi cost from a special angle.
Upon evaluating the 2 movies, we noticed similarities within the location featured in each the viral video and the information report, which might be seen beneath.
We confirmed that the situation is Nakhass Chowk, Kotwali Highway, Miyan Baza, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, by verifying it via Google Maps Road View.
We additionally discovered information stories (right here, and right here) that coated the identical incident.
Factly had beforehand debunked the identical video, which went viral with false claims of exhibiting an Indian navy crackdown on Kashmiris.
To sum up, an outdated 2019 video from anti-CAA protest in Gorakhpur falsely linked to latest protests in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh.
(This story was initially revealed by Factly, and republished by NDTV as a part of the Shakti Collective)