A video of an injured child bleeding from his head is widely being shared on the internet with a claim that the incident took place in Varanasi where the ‘Yogi police’ is entering mosques and killing children.
The caption of the video read: ‘#Indian_Muslims_in_danger #UNHCR #islamophobia_in_india #Kashmir * This shocking video of the Yogi Police in Varanasi (UP), how the children of the mosque and school were killed mercilessly, and showed the entire world what is happening in India * * Share please * (sic)‘.
#Indian_Muslims_in_danger #UNHCR #islamophobia_in_india #Kashmir * This shocking video of the Yogi Police in Varanasi (UP), how the children of the mosque and school were killed mercilessly, and showed the entire world what is happening in India * * Share please * pic.twitter.com/4gLfZs3IlN
— 🌹المحاميه / دلال العجمي-باحث دكتوراه بالقانون ⚖️ (@Dalal_alajmi_) May 24, 2020
* This shocking video of the Yogi Police in Varanasi (UP), how the children of the mosque and school were killed mercilessly, and showed the entire world what is happening in India * * Share please * pic.twitter.com/NJQrDlMX9n
— Dr Fatima K – PTI (FOLLOW 4 ANY MEDICAL ADVICE ) (@p4pakipower) May 25, 2020
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim and found it to be fake.
Varanasi Police, in a tweet, confirmed that the claim attached to the video is false. They explicitly clarified that the video is old and not from Varanasi.
#UPAgainstFakeNews @Uppolice @dgpup @adgzonevaranasi @IgRangeVaranasi @upbhaskar @Live_Hindustan @TOIIndiaNews @CMOfficeUP @ANI @DDNewslive @DainikBhaskar @news18dotcom pic.twitter.com/NWBDzcCeXQ
— Varanasi Police (@varanasipolice) May 25, 2020
We also found the same video on Twitter, dated December 20, 2019, which proves that the video is old.
यज़ीद के बारे में सुना था निहायत नीच कमीना था जो बच्चे से बूढ़े, जवान सब पर जुल्म करता था लेकिन हिन्दुस्तान में उसी का नस्ल क पैदा होके हुकूमत पे बैठा है जो आज अपनी सत्ता के अहंकार में बच्चे तक को नही छोड़ा
याद रखना जिस तरह यज़ीद का नाम लेने वाला कोई नही
उसी तरह तेरा भी हाल होगा pic.twitter.com/4QTx8sVX4S— रिज़वी (@SalmanR67270555) December 20, 2019
NewsMobile could not independently verify the origin of the video. But, the above information establishes that video in question is old and not from Varanasi.
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