Fact Check 2 Year Old Incident Of Mob Lynching In Gujarat Passed Off
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The incident. a simple google search, using keywords, revealed that the incident is two years old. according to reports, on october 1, 2017, a 21 year old dalit youth jayesh solanki was allegedly beaten to death by a group of men from the upper caste community for attending a garba event in anand district of gujarat. A muslim man was tied with ropes and beaten brutally by saffron terrorist. in this incident, bunch of people are beating a man who is strangled with ropes. this video is being spread on social media with a claim that this incident happened on 21 st july 2019 in gujarat and it is being linked to mob lynching. this post received around 500.
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The indian express reported that on july 5, 2019, versatile minority forum president advocate babu pathan and his associates took out a rally to condemn the mob lynching of tabrez ansari. twenty four year old ansari died in jharkhand’s sarikela kharsawan district in june 2019, days after he was tied to an electricity pole, assaulted, and. The viral video is of an old incident in gujarat. claim: sharing the viral video, social media user (archive link ) ‘elizabeth thapa’ wrote, “brutal attack on a christian by a hindu mob in india, a country where mob lynchings are on the rise.”. Fact check: dancing video of old woman passed off as pm modi's mother hira ben. india today anti fake news war room (afwa) found that this is a wrong claim. the old woman in the viral video is not pm modi's mother hira ben. this video was uploaded on on september 30, 2017 by one ketan chheda with the caption "garba fever". listen to story. The claim is false; the video actually shows a july 2019 protest over mob lynching in surat city in the western state of gujarat. the one minute 54 seconds video was published in this facebook post on july 12, 2019. it has been viewed more than 5,500 times. the footage shows a group of men vandalising a bus, smashing its windows with large rocks.
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Fact check: dancing video of old woman passed off as pm modi's mother hira ben. india today anti fake news war room (afwa) found that this is a wrong claim. the old woman in the viral video is not pm modi's mother hira ben. this video was uploaded on on september 30, 2017 by one ketan chheda with the caption "garba fever". listen to story. The claim is false; the video actually shows a july 2019 protest over mob lynching in surat city in the western state of gujarat. the one minute 54 seconds video was published in this facebook post on july 12, 2019. it has been viewed more than 5,500 times. the footage shows a group of men vandalising a bus, smashing its windows with large rocks. The images of desperate helpless injured victims on the verge of death like seen in the cases of tabrez ansari have shaken the moral conscience of the society, yet the lynching continues. in 2020, india witnessed 23 incidents of mob lynching as against 107 incidents in 2019 as per the reportage in the media. these 23 incidents claimed 22 lives. Asgar needed a few minutes to gather himself before he took ansari’s body home to mumbai that rainy night. the family buried him in the early morning of june 25. “it was supposed to be his.
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