Lighthouse Journalism came across a video where a man was seen opposing electricity department officials. It was claimed that the incident is from India. The video was being shared giving it a communal angle. During the investigation we found that the video is from Pakistan and not India.
Claim:
X user jitendra pratap singh shared the video on his profile along with viral claim.
Check the archive version of the claim.
Other users too are sharing the video with the same claim.
Investigation:
We started the investigation by running a reverse image search on the keyframes obtained from the video.
We found the video uploaded on Gulistan-e-Johar, Karachi. The video was uploaded on 30 June, 2021, suggesting that the video is old.
We also found the video uploaded on X in 2020 on the social media handle of Trends Pakistan.
We also found the video on several other platforms suggesting that the video is from Karachi, Pakistan.
Conclusion: Old video from a fight over electricity theft from 2020 is from Pakistan and not India. Viral claims are misleading.
