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This video of former Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli making a "hang till death" demand in the Kolkata case is edited.
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India Today Fact Check
This video is edited. In the original video, a 2022 interview, Kohli spoke about his IPL performance.
Following the Kolkata rape-murder case that spawned protests across India, the West Bengal government called a special session of the state Assembly to pass a new anti-rape bill on September 2.
Now, a video of the former captain of the Indian cricket team, Virat Kohli, talking about the RG Kar murder and rape case is making the rounds on social media. In it, Kohli can be heard condemning what happened to the victim, adding that all the rapists should be hanged to death.
India Today Fact Check, however, found that this video was edited. In the original video, Kohli was talking about his IPL performance in this 2022 interview.
OUR PROBE
Reverse searching keyframes of the viral video led us to a similar video of Kohli in a post dated April 7. In it, Kohli could be seen discussing how many Indian Premier League teams had the opportunity but did not back him until he became successful. He also spoke about his 2018 England tour.
With the help of this clue, we found the original video shared on the official YouTube channel of Royal Challengers Bengaluru on February 26, 2022. In the video, Kohli talked about how the IPL changed his life, what the Royal Challengers Bangalore team meant to him, how he handled the highs and lows in his life, and more.
In this video, the portion going viral on social media can be seen at the 6:52 timestamp. In it, Kohli said how in the first three years of the IPL, he could not play up to his potential because he was not playing at number three in the IPL.
As opposed to the viral clip, Kohli can be heard saying, “I felt like the composition of that team, where they were amazing players, and rightly so in the right positions, I was not able to play in the position that was my strength." The movement of Kohli’s lips and face in this portion matches the viral clip.
It is noteworthy, that Kohli has not issued any statement about the Kolkata rape-murder case at the time of writing this report.
Recently, another video of Virat Kohli, seemingly criticising top-order batter Shubman Gill went viral on social media. It was later found out that the video was taken from his 2019 interview with American journalist Graham Bensinger and an AI-generated audio of Kohli was added to it.
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