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(Archived versions of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here, here, here, and here.)
Is it true?: No, neither is the video recent, nor is it from West Bengal.
It dates back to February and shows a bike rally in Sangli, Maharashtra.
How did we find out the truth?: We began by taking screenshots of the video and conducting a reverse image search with the help of Google Lens.
The results led us to Instagram posts, which can be seen here, here, and here, along with a YouTube video shared on or around 17 February.
Many of these posts, including the one below, which had over three lakh views, were shared with the hashtag 'Sanglikar', which is the demonym from people from the town of Sangli, Maharashtra.
Taking a cue from this, we ran a keyword search with the term 'Sangli bike rally' on Google, using a date filter to obtain results from February 2025.
This led us to a YouTube video by a channel called 'Maharashtra Katta', which had shared a similar video with the title 'Sangli Bike Rally Viral Video: Police gave a beating to the hooligans in Sangli!'
We also came across news reports, such as ones by local news outlet Saam TV, which carried a screenshot of the viral video.
It said that a group of pilgrims had gone to Karnataka during Maghi Purnima and 'caused a ruckus' around 2 am, when they were on their way back.
The report added that around 2,000 people were returning from the Mayakka Devi Yatra in Karnataka's when they started sloganeering and honking on the roads.
Another report by The Times of India said that the police had lathi-charged the people creating the ruckus, leaving 35 of the 200 bikers with "minor injuries."
Conclusion: An old video from Maharashtra's Sangli is being shared with the false claim that it shows the Bajrang Dal arriving in West Bengal.
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