Viral video claiming Hindu girls rescued from Muslim man’s house turns out to be scripted
New Delhi: A viral video circulating across social media platforms with the claim that Hindu girls were rescued from a Muslim Man’s house has turned out to be scripted.
The video shared with a caption “Muslim boys kidnap Hindu girls. Love Jihad,” showed two individuals allegedly rescuing the girls crying and covered in bruises, who were allegedly kept in a cupboard after being abducted.
However, PTI Fact Check Desk has discovered the claim to be fake and that it was a scripted video that was widely shared on social media with a false communal claim. He are the complete details.
Viral Video
A Facebook user shared on December 15 a video, claiming that it showed several Hindu women being rescued from a Muslim man’s house. The video was shared with the caption:
“Muslim boys kidnap Hindu girls. Love Jihad.”
Investigation
The PTI Fact Check Desk ran the keyframes of the viral video through Google Lens and came across a YouTube video posted by a channel named ‘Naveen Jangra’ on February 12, 2023. The content in the video was the same as the viral clip.
Here is the screenshot of the YouTube video.
Below is a combination image, which shows that the content in the viral video is the same as that of the YouTube channel.
The PTI Fact Check Desk watched the video and found that it contains a disclaimer at the 22-second mark stating it should be consumed for “entertainment purpose only”.
Below is the screenshot of the disclaimer posted in the video.
Further, to corroborate the details, the PTI Fact Check Desk also scanned through other videos uploaded on the YouTube channels and found many scripted videos like the viral clip.
Subsequently, the PTI Fact Check Team concluded that the viral video was scripted and was shared as a real incident, with a false communal claim.
CLAIM
A viral video shows Hindu women being rescued from a Muslim man's house, who were abducted and tortured.
FACT
A scripted video was shared a real incident on social media.
CONCLUSION
Multiple social media users shared a video, claiming that it showed two persons rescuing several Hindu girls, who were abducted and tortured by a Muslim man.
In its investigation, the PTI Fact Check Desk found that a scripted video was shared on social media as a real incident with a false communal claim.
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Traffic fraud: Fake 'no-entry' sticker racket busted in Delhi, mastermind among 3 held
New Delhi (PTI): Police here have busted a crime syndicate involved in traffic fraud and extortion, arresting three people including the alleged mastermind who sold fake stickers to help commercial vehicles bypass no-entry restrictions, an official said on Saturday.
The police said they dismantled a third organised syndicate linked to traffic-related frauds, with the arrest of Rinku Rana alias Bhushan, his associate Sonu Sharma and Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, who was also connected to another extortion syndicate.
According to the police, Rinku Rana was running a well-organised network that facilitated the movement of commercial goods vehicles during restricted hours by selling fake 'marka' or stickers for Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 per vehicle every month. The stickers were falsely projected as authorisation to evade traffic challans.
During raids, the police recovered Rs 31 lakh in cash, property documents worth several crores of rupees, over 500 fake stickers and six mobile phones allegedly used to operate the syndicate.
The crackdown followed a complaint filed by a traffic police officer in April this year after a commercial vehicle tried to evade checking by producing a fake sticker claiming exemption from enforcement action.
Investigation revealed that social media groups were being used to coordinate the illegal movement of vehicles and alert drivers about traffic police checkpoints, police said.
"A parallel system was being run to cheat drivers and vehicle owners while undermining traffic enforcement. On the basis of evidence, provisions related to organised crime under the BNS were invoked," a senior police officer said.
Sonu Sharma, the police said, managed social media groups through which stickers were sold and real-time alerts were circulated regarding traffic police movement. He also acted as a link between Rana and drivers operating in the field.
In a related development, Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, an associate of Rajkumar alias Raju Meena, who was earlier arrested under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), was also apprehended.
Mukesh allegedly helped extort money from transporters and was involved in blackmailing traffic police personnel by recording enforcement actions, the police said.
Investigators alleged the syndicate led by Rajkumar deployed drivers to deliberately violate traffic rules and secretly record police officials during challans, later using manipulated videos to extort money under threat of false allegations.
The police said that in total, eight accused belonging to three different organised crime syndicates linked to traffic frauds and extortion have been arrested so far.
Further investigation is underway to trace the remaining members, conduct financial probes, and analyse digital evidence recovered during the raids, officials added.
