Lighthouse Journalism discovered a video depicting a clash between police officers and civilians. It was claimed that the video originated in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, where the police had arrived for identity verification. The video allegedly shows people of the Rohingya community from Bangladesh harassing the police officers.
Claim:
X user Arun Singh shared the video on his profile.
Check the archive version of the post here.
Other users too are sharing the video with the same claim.
Investigation:
We started our investigation by grabbing keyframes from the video and then running reverse image search on the same.
We found a video on YouTube channel of The Pulse NE.
The video was titled: Assam Minister Raises Concern Over Rising Incidents post election
This prompted the video to be from Assam.
During the reverse image search, we found a post by Assam Minister Piyush Hazarika, who shared that the incident is Assam.
We also found a reply by Mathura police on the post.
They clarified that the video is not from Mathura.
We then found a news article on India Today NE uploaded on June 28, 2024.
The report mentioned: Assam Minister Pijush Hazarika posted on X condemning an attack on police personnel in Dhing, Assam. On June 28, Hazarika posted on X, expressing concern over the incident and alleging intolerance from a specific community towards law enforcement.
The report further mentioned: “It was an incident that took place a few days ago in Dhing, Assam. Look how intolerant people from a particular community are attacking the police on duty in the form of attackers,” Hazarika wrote in his post, attaching a video that shows a mob assaulting police officers in Dhing, located in Nagaon district of Assam
Earlier on June 27, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma alleged that a particular section of people were creating disturbances in the state after Lok Sabha election results were out on June 4. He further directed the police to handle such forces firmly.
Conclusion: Old video from Assam when police on duty were attacked goes viral as recent from Mathura, UP. Viral claims are misleading.
