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India Today Fact Check found that this video is related to a clash between students of different colleges in Bangladesh. It does not show the atrocities of Muslims against Bangladeshi Hindus.
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India Today Fact Check
This video shows a clash between students from different colleges in Bangladesh.
The arrest of Chinmoy Krishna Das, a prominent Hindu priest in Bangladesh, has sparked a huge uproar. He was arrested on November 25 on sedition charges. A video now going viral allegedly shows attacks on minority Hindus in Bangladesh by Muslims. The video shows a large mob of mostly young people armed with sticks assaulting others.
Sharing this on X, a user wrote, “In Bangladesh Clear Video of Hindu Mob Lynchings while Azan is going on. Here in India, Hindu politicians stops their public speech when Azan starts in between speech as a mark of respect. Hindus must stop such policy, as they don’t respect while lynching Hindus.”
However, India Today Fact Check found that this video is related to a clash between students of different colleges in Bangladesh. It does not show the atrocities of Muslims against Bangladeshi Hindus.
OUR PROBE
The viral video featured the logo of BDNews24.com, a prominent Bangladeshi news portal. Based on this information, we found several videos on the portal’s official YouTube channel, which featured clips from the viral video.
According to the title and description of one of these videos from November 25, students of Dr Mahbubur Rahman Mollah College clashed with students of Government Shahid Suhrawardy College and Kabi Nazrul Government College in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
A subsequent keyword search led us to several news reports that stated this incident was related to a clash between students from different colleges in Bangladesh.
On November 16, Abhijeet Halder, a class 12 student suffering from dengue, was admitted to the Dhaka National Medical College Hospital, where he died on November 18. Fellow students alleged that medical negligence and wrong treatment by the hospital caused his death. After that, students in large numbers took to the streets and started demonstrations. However, the hospital denied all these allegations.
As per reports, on November 21, these protests turned violent. Protesters vandalised the Government Shahid Suhrawardy College and the Kabi Nazrul Government College and also looted the nearby shops. They also attacked the Dhaka National Medical College Hospital. Allegedly, this vandalism was carried out by the students of Dr Mahbubur Rahman Mollah College.
According to the Dhaka Tribune, following this, students of Shahid Suhrawardy and Kabi Nazrul colleges vandalised the Dr Mahbubur Rahman Mollah College and beat up students there to “avenge” the attacks on them.
More than 30 students were reportedly injured in this clash between students of several colleges.
It is thus clear that the video of the clash between students in Bangladesh is being shared with a communal spin.
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