| schema:text
| - A video clip of a man with a knife standing amid a crowd of onlookers and being shot at by the police is going viral. It is claimed that UP Police shot down Dada Abdul Gaffar of Saharanpur “this Sunday” at the marketplace as he threatened and abused the locals and the police.
X (formerly Twitter) handle @rajasolank71070 shared the video on September 09, 2024, with the claim that ‘dada’ Abdul Gaffar of Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh was waving his knife and abusing the locals “this Sunday” at a marketplace. As the “Yogi Baba’s police” arrived, he continued his threats and curses. To this, police took action, so that no other Gaffar would try to come out of their holes for the next 10 years, at least.
सहारनपुर उत्तर प्रदेश, का दादा अब्दुल गफ्फार रविवार मार्किट में
छुरे लहरा कर गालिया दे रहा था
तभी योगी बाबा की पुलिस आयी तो गफ्फार ने इन्हे भी गलियां और धमकी दे डाली
उसके बाद जो पुलिस ने किया अब अगले 10 वर्ष तक कोई गफ्फार किसी छेद से
दादागिरी करने के लिए बाहर नहीं आएगा
आएगा… pic.twitter.com/fZr95oHs5x
— बकरी वाले मौलाना (बकरी न्यूज़) (@rajasolank71070) September 9, 2024
The tweet has garnered more than 6 Lakh views and has been re-tweeted close to 3,000 times.
Several X handles, including @sk465g, @KamalR_BJP, @ankit_miishra, @Priyaaa_B, and @MeenakshiTri04, have shared and re-shared the same claim.
We noticed that the video along with similar claims had gone viral at least twice in the past.
On March 15, 2024, X handle @VinubhaiPatel8 shared the video with a similar claim — that it was from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. According to him, the name of the perpetrator was Abdul Masood.
_*यह सहारनपुर उत्तर प्रदेश का गुंडा अब्दुल मसूद है । बीते रविवार को मार्केट में दोनों हाथों में 🔪लहराता हुआ दुकानदारों व पब्लिक के बीच खुलेआम दादागिरी कर रहा था, और फ़िर योगी जी की पुलिस आ गई…. फिर जो हुआ, उसका नजारा आपके सामने है ! ये है सही जगह व राष्ट्रवादी पार्टी को दिये pic.twitter.com/lwO9FDpqEd
— Vinubhai Patel (मोदी का परिवार) (@VinubhaiPatel8) March 15, 2024
A year before that, in March 2023, X handle @surenderb7100 and several others including @maheshyag3, @Himansh21211828, and @jigarceo had made the same claim while sharing the video.
यह सहारनपुर उत्तर प्रदेश का दादा अब्दुल गफार था, इतवार को मार्केट में दादागिरी कर रहा था और योगी जी की पुलिस आ गई फिर नजारा आपके सामने है।
ऐसा लिख कर सोशल मिडिया पर वायरल विडिओ#viral pic.twitter.com/UEhHxjyqkG
— सुरेन्द्र गुर्जर सलारपुर (@surenderb7100) March 21, 2023
Fact Check
We found that UP police fact-checked this video when it had gone viral in March 2024. The official handle of UP Police Fact Check (@UPPViralCheck) said, “The video is not from UP. It is related to an incident in Kalaburagi locality of Karnataka dated 05/02/23. This misleading and malicious claim had been debunked in the past as well…”
#FactCheck -वीडियो उoप्रo से न होकर जनपद कलबुर्गी, कर्नाटक दि० 05/02/23 की घटना से संबंधित है। पूर्व में भी इस भ्रामक एवं विद्वेषपूर्ण ट्वीट का खण्डन किया गया है।@saharanpurpol द्वारा आपके विरुद्ध वैधानिक कार्यवाही अमल में लाई जा रही है।#UPPViralCheckhttps://t.co/kG11UFekOn… https://t.co/PzImeHJAna pic.twitter.com/jDuLcfb704
— UPPOLICE FACT CHECK (@UPPViralCheck) March 16, 2024
We also noted that Saharanpur Police had shared the above tweet in reply to the tweet by @rajasolank71070 (embedded at the beginning of the story).
Taking a cue from this, we performed a keyword search which led us to several news reports from February 6, 2023.
A report by the Hindustan Times states that the incident occurred around 9 pm on Saturday (February 4, 2023) in Bhrahmapura police station area. The man seen in the video brandishing a knife was identified by police as Mohammed Fazal Jafar, a 28-years old fruit vendor. The Kalaburagi police in Karnataka approached the man and asked him to put down the knife, however, as he threatened to attack, an officer opened fire at Jafar and recovered the weapon from him.
Another news article by the Indian Express stated, “Police in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi opened fire at a man’s lower limbs after he was found carrying knives and allegedly threatening the public in a market area. This story, however, claimed the incident had happened on Sunday, February 5.
Both the reports carried visuals which matched the visuals in the viral video.
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
We also found a video report on YouTube published by The News Minute on February 6, 2023.
It mentions, “The Kalaburagi police shot and injured a man brandishing a knife at a market on February 5. The accused had been threatening the public with the knife in the crowded market place when the police fired three shots. The accused was arrested and later to taken to the hospital to treat his injuries.” See screenshot below:
To sum up, several claims made with the viral video are false. Firstly, it is not a recent incident; it dates back to February 2023. Secondly, the name of the perpetrator is Mohammed Fazal Jafar and not Abdul Gaffar or Abdul Masood. Finally, the place of occurrence is not Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh but Kalaburagi, Karnataka.
Ankita Mahalanobish is an intern at Alt News.
Independent journalism that speaks truth to power and is free of corporate and political control is possible only when people start contributing towards the same. Please consider donating towards this endeavour to fight fake news and misinformation.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)