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India Today, in its investigation, found that this video is from August 2022.
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India Today Fact Check
This 2022 video is from Hyderabad and shows police arresting people protesting against T Raja Singh.
Amid escalating communal tensions in Thane's Mira Road, a video allegedly showing police action in the locality has been widely shared. In the video, a group of policemen in protective gear arresting and assaulting several young men. As per several posts, the young men in the clip allegedly attacked a Hindu rally on January 22. The archive of one such post can be seen here.
India Today Fact Check found that this is a Hyderabad video from 2022. It has nothing to do with the recent incidents in Mira Road.
OUR PROBE
A reverse image search of keyframes from the viral video led us to a Facebook post dated August 26, 2022, which contained this video. According to the post, the police on the night of August 24, 2022, barged into several homes and dragged out Muslim youth in and around the Shalibanda area in Hyderabad after protests against suspended Bharatiya Janata Party MLA T Raja Singh swelled following derogatory remarks on Prophet Muhammad.
In August 2022, Singh was suspended by the BJP and arrested by the state police for allegedly delivering derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad in a video posted on social media. This came two months after the BJP suspended its national spokesperson Nupur Sharma and expelled its Delhi leader Naveen Kumar Jindal for their remarks on the Prophet. Then, in October 2023, the BJP revoked his suspension.
According to a report by The Siasat Daily, Singh’s immediate release on bail on August 23, 2022, enraged many and despite several warnings by the Hyderabad police to stay indoors, angry Muslim youth took to the streets to protest. This led to the arrests.
In the viral video, a police vehicle with a license plate beginning with “TS 09” could be seen parked on the road. Motor vehicles registered in Telangana start with “TS”, and “TS 09” is the RTO code of Hyderabad.
Thus, it is more than clear to say that this video has nothing to do with the recent communal violence in Thane’s Mira Road.
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