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According to the AFWA probe, the video of a teacher thrashing a student is not from Rajasthan's Jalore but from Bihar.
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India Today Fact Check
A Dalit student has been allegedly killed by a teacher for drinking water in a school in Jalore. But the viral video is of a different incident from Bihar.
A nine-year-old Dalit boy died on Saturday after he was allegedly beaten up by a teacher for drinking water from a pot in a private school in Rajasthan's Jalore district.
Amidst the public outrage over the shocking incident, a Facebook user posted a video of a man brutally thrashing a boy and claimed that this was how the teacher killed the boy for drinking water.
India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that the video is unrelated to the Jalore incident. The video was shot in Bihar earlier this year where a tuition teacher was arrested for brutally beating a student.
The viral post is saved here.
AFWA probe
Using reverse image search, we found the screenshots of the viral video tweeted by the news agency ANI on July 7, 2022. According to the tweet, the incident was from Bihar where a tuition teacher called Amarkant Kumar was arrested for brutally thrashing a six-year-old student.
Bihar: Tuition teacher Amarkant Kumar arrested for brutally thrashing 6y/o student
Teacher thrashed the child after he witnessed teacher talking to a female student.Special team was constituted considering matter's seriousness: SSP Patna
(Pic 1,2,3: Screengrab from viral video) pic.twitter.com/II0X832l2E — ANI (@ANI) July 7, 2022
In another tweet, ANI quoted the SSP Patna MS Dhillon saying that the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights had also taken cognizance of the incident. The teacher was arrested from Nalanda.
Several media outlets like "The Times of India" had reported on the incident. Per these news reports, Amarkant Kumar thrashed the six-year-old for talking to a female student.
A Dalit student died in Rajasthan’s Jalore recently after being allegedly thrashed by a school teacher in a private school for drinking water from the pot. Chief minister Ashok Gehlot expressed his grief and concern over the incident on Twitter.
SC/ST — Ashok Gehlot (@ashokgehlot51) August 13, 2022
But the now viral video is unrelated to the shocking incident from Jalore.
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