Fact Check: Man chopping wife's hair in Dhaka FALSELY viral as communal incident in Bengal
Claim: This video shows a Muslim man chopping a Hindu woman’s hair in West Bengal.
A video doing the rounds on social media shows a woman crying as a man chops her hair off angrily. Some people can be seen approaching the man as the incident takes place.
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Some shared the clip, claiming that this video was from West Bengal, where a Muslim man publicly chopped off the hair of a Hindu woman against her will. Some also claimed that he was punishing the woman for not paying his fare.
India Today Fact Check, however, found that this 2024 video shows an angry husband cutting his wife's hair after a fight in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka.
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Reverse searching keyframes from the viral video led us to the same video shared as a YouTube Short in February. The video was shared in collaboration with a YouTube channel called "City Voice 1986". This channel originally shared the video in question on September 15 last year.
We then found a Facebook account with the same name as the YouTube channel that posted a longer version of the viral video along with two other videos linked to the incident. The account belongs to Mohammad Air Khan, a resident of the Gulshan neighbourhood in Dhaka.
The captions of these posts stated that the man in the video was beating his wife on the street. In one of the videos, the man says in Bengali that it is his family matter when confronted. Later, he could be seen getting beaten up by a group of people for mistreating his wife.
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Man launches attack with iron rod inside Golden Temple in Amritsar, injures 5
Amritsar, Mar 14 (PTI): A man wielding an iron rod went on an indiscriminate rampage on Friday here at Golden Temple, injuring two 'sewadars' and three devotees, police said.
The man was seen moving in the Guru Ramdas Niwas, also called Guru Ramdas Sarai, of the Golden Temple.
According to Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) Secretary Partap Singh, the man turned violent when asked about his antecedents and attacked the SGPC employees and the others.
Police said the man hailed from Haryana and was handed over to them by the SGPC after the incident.
The reason behind the attack is under investigation.
The three injured devotees had come to the temple from Mohali, Bathinda and Patiala, while the other two were 'sewadars' of Sri Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple), Partap Singh said.
One 'sewadar' and a devotee from Bathinda suffered severe head injuries.
The injured were rushed to Sri Guru Ramdas Hospital at Vallah in a critical condition.
Partap Singh said the attacker and an accomplice of his were apprehended and handed over to the police.
In his appeal to the government and law enforcement agencies, the SGPC Secretary called for no leniency in taking action against the perpetrators.
