A video is making rounds on social media in which police force is seen restoring to lathi-charge to disperse a crowd.
The claim is being made that police is beating Muslims in Mosque while offering prayer.
The caption reads- ” #Indian Police Beating #Muslims in Mosque while offering Prayer.#India”
📌#India|n police attacked praying Muslims in a mosque…
▪️Far-right Hindu attacks targeting the Muslim population in the country are on the rise latterly pic.twitter.com/1k4D7UTOQk
— EHA News (@eha_news) March 24, 2019
#Indian Police Beating #Muslims in Mosque while offering Prayer.#India
Via: @javaidShaikh @nkoszwelivelile @_cosatu @ejaz_k @channelislam @salaamedia @SAMNET786 @itv_sa @MRN1SA @ijassat @FawziaPeer @LeburuPaseka pic.twitter.com/0Gy42EwRXb— Friends of Kashmir (@kashmir_friends) March 24, 2019
FACT CHECK
When we did a fact check, we found that the claim is FAKE.
When we put a screengrab of the video through Reverse Image Search, we found that the video is from Aligarh. The police had to resort to lathi-charge to disperse a group of Hindu Jagran Manch activists from SSP office.
We also found the video on ANI on the lathi charge during the protest.
#WATCH: Police baton charge on members of Hindu Jagran Manch who were protesting outside the office of Aligarh Senior Superintent of Police (SSP), demanding the arrest of accused who had attacked one of their members. pic.twitter.com/vJkqoWxUkT
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) June 12, 2018
The above information proves that the claim attached to the post is fake.
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