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AFWA's probe found that a video from Uttar Pradesh's Agra is being shared with false 'Love Jihad' spin on social media.
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India Today Fact Check
This video is from Agra, Uttar Pradesh. Per the police, all men and women caught were adults and Hindu. No action has been taken against any of them.
A video of a police raid of a location showing a number of men and women in compromising positions has been virally shared online. If social media is to be believed, this raid happened at a hookah bar in Madhya Pradesh, and the police arrested 15 Hindu women and 15 Muslim men.
The video was shared with hashtags for “Love Jihad” — a Hindu right-wing conspiracy that believes Muslim men lure Hindu women into marriage and subsequently convert them to Islam.
AFWA’s investigation found that all the people caught were Hindus. And none of them were arrested. The incident also did not take place in MP.
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Upon reverse searching the video’s frames, we found a screenshot from it carried by a news website called “Bikaner24x7.com”. The report said this raid took place in Bikaner, Rajasthan on August 18, 2022. We then checked the official Twitter account of Bikaner Police and found a tweet about this video from the same date. It said that the incident was from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, and not Bikaner.
, #FakeNewsAlert #bikanerpolice @PoliceRajasthan @IgpBikaner pic.twitter.com/kUZBCoTGZE — Bikaner Police (@Bikaner_Police) August 18, 2022
AFWA reached out to India Today’s Agra correspondent, who confirmed that the incident took place in Agra. Subsequently, we contacted Satyanarayan Parapat, the Assistant Superintendent of Police for Agra's Hari Parvat. When we enquired about the allegations of “Love Jihad”, Parapat denied it and said all the couples caught during the raid were adults and Hindus.
Parapat further said, “None of them were arrested and no case has been registered against them,” adding that after the video went viral on social media, it created a stir in Agra. Senior Superintendent of Police Prabhakar Chaudhary had suspended three police officers in Hari Parvat station for circulating the objectionable video.
Several news outlets, including Dainik Bhaskar and AajTak reported this.
Reportedly, the video was shot on July 27, 2022, when a raid was conducted at one of the cafes in Sanjay Place, Agra.
It is thus clear that the video in question was falsely shared with a communal spin.
(With inputs from Arvind Sharma in Agra and Sanjana Saxena
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