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The video, which surfaced on social media, features men in the nude carrying placards and protesting. It has nothing to do with the incident of sexual violence in Manipur.
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India Today Fact Check
The protest took place near the Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha in Raipur, when a few men protested nude against state inaction on recruitment for government jobs based on alleged fake caste certificates.
Tensions gripped the northeastern Indian state of Manipur after a two-month-old video of two women being paraded naked surfaced on the internet. The gruesome incident has triggered a series of protests in several cities.
A video allegedly showing one such protest in Manipur has been making the rounds on social media. In the video, naked men carrying placards could be seen running on the road alongside a vehicle.
An archived version of one such tweet can be seen here.
India Today found that the viral video shows a protest that took place in Chhattisgarh against the state's inaction on recruitment for government jobs on the basis of alleged fake caste certificates.
OUR PROBE
A keyword search led us to several media reports from July 2023. The Free Press Journal reported that a few men took part in a naked protest outside the state assembly in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, to bring the government's attention to the issue of fake caste certificate menace in government jobs in the state.
It further stated that the youths were seen running with placards and following the VVIP cars as they were trying to enter the Assembly.
The protesters were reportedly stopped from moving towards the state Assembly and were taken into preventive custody.
A report by the Indian Express noted that a Chhattisgarh court rejected the bail application of 29 men who were arrested for protesting nude near the Vidhan Sabha in Raipur.
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According to the report, all the men were from scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. The issue goes back to 2020 when a committee was constituted to verify if government jobs were given on the basis of allegedly fake caste certificates between 2000 to 2020.
The committee, in its findings, revealed that of 758 caste certificates of government servants scrutinized, 267 were found to be fake.
Thus, it’s clear that a video of a naked protest in Chhattisgarh against fake caste certificates is being passed off as a protest against women being paraded naked in Manipur.
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