Lighthouse Journalism found a video of a crowd being widely shared on social media platforms. The video featured a massive crowd and prompted the claim that the Marathas were marching towards Nagpur. During the investigation, we found that the video was being shared with a misleading claim. The video is not from Nagpur.
Claim:
X user Nandini Idnani shared the video on her profile with a misleading claim.
Other users are sharing the video with similar claims.
Investigation:
We started the investigation by running a reverse image search on the keyframes obtained from the viral video.
We found similar visuals in a video posted on YouTube.
We also ran reverse image search simultaneously on the visuals obtained from the video.
This led us to a video uploaded to the Instagram handle of shree_shivpratisthan_yenpe.
The video was uploaded on February 12, which was before the Nagpur riots that took place on March 17, 2025.
The caption said: हिन्दुस्थान ची राखीव फौज 👑🔥🚩mohim2025 #guruji #bhide_guruji #hindu #hindusherboy #jayshreeram #jayshivray #dharmveer
We also found the video uploaded on another Instagram channel.
The video was captioned: श्री शिवप्रतिष्ठान हिंदुस्थान, धारातीर्थ गडकोट मोहीम २०२५ 🧡🚩
We then ran a Google keyword search and found several news reports about the same.
We also found the similar visuals on a video news report posted on ABP Majha.
Conclusion: The video of ‘Dharateerth Gadkot Mohim’ (Fort Campaign) by Sambhaji Bhide Guruji is being shared with a misleading claim linking it to Nagpur. The video is old and unrelated, and not recent from the Nagpur riots. The viral claim is misleading.
