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| - Fact Check: Flogged for converting to Christianity? No, this old clip is related to an affair
India Today Fact Check found that the video is over two years old and unrelated to any religious conversion. It shows a brawl over an alleged love affair.
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This video is over two years old and from Sangareddy, Telangana. It shows a brawl between two families over an alleged extramarital affair.
A disturbing video of a youth getting beaten by a mob with sticks is making rounds on social media. Allegedly, this video showed how a Hindu man was assaulted because he converted to Christianity.
One such post was captioned: "Is leaving Hinduism and converting into other religion crime in this country? This man was brutally beaten by mobs just because he left Hindusim and converted himself into Christian." Another post read: "HINDUS ATTACK A MAN FOR CONVERTING TO CHRISTIANITY."
India Today Fact Check has found that this incident is more than two years old and is unrelated to conversion.
OUR PROBE
Upon reverse-searching keyframes from the viral video, we came across the same clip shared on X in July 2022. The post identified the victim as Begari Naresh, a Scheduled Caste man who was thrashed in Sangareddy, Telangana. This post did not mention anything about a religious conversion.
Subsequent searches with the help of related keywords took us to a report in the online news website The Moonayak, that featured screenshots of the same incident. Per the report, the victim B Naresh (26) was a Dalit youth who was allegedly romantically involved with a woman from the same village and was beaten by her relatives.
Telangana Today, in a report dated July 4, 2022, noted that the incident took place in the Chelemamidi village of Jharasangam Mandal. According to the report, B Naresh was already married and was having an extramarital affair with a woman. But, they were reportedly caught by the woman's family members in a compromising position.
On July 5, 2022, The New Indian Express reported that the victim was also beaten up by the woman's husband and his relatives. Naresh’s parents and grandmother who came to his rescue, were also beaten up and they all were admitted to the hospital. Later, a case was registered against the woman’s husband and his relatives at Jharasangam police station.
Thus, it is more than evident that a two-year-old incident was falsely peddled as a case of religious conversion in India.
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