By Oishani Bhattacharya

A video of a scuffle between some men donning saffron scarves and uniformed police personnel has surfaced on social media. It is being claimed that the video shows BJP workers clashing with the police in a recent event.

X page INC News (@TheIncNews) shared the clip on July 15 with a caption in Hindi which said: “These BJP goons are raising their hands on the uniformed police — if there was a Muslim in his place, what would have happened? Why isn’t the government filing NSA and sedition charges against him?? Why isn’t the loyal Godi media debating this?? Friends, retweet and show it to the whole country…” (Archive)

The tweet has received over 3.84 Lakh views and has been retweeted over 6,500 times.

https://x.com/TheIncNews/status/1812869571331715501?t=KxdO-FMOVBllRXnfIKRpiw&s=19

X page Samajwadi Prahari (@SP_Prahari), which is affiliated to the Samajwadi Party, also shared the viral clip with the same caption. (Archive)

https://x.com/SP_Prahari/status/1813094750184190439?t=sxzIwYUBsbFmfTt1TRgaLw&s=19

Several other users shared the viral video with similar captions.

Fact Check

After breaking down the video clip into multiple key frames, we ran a reverse image search on a few of them. This led us to a news report by The Siasat Daily which carried a screengrab from the viral video. The report, which was published on July 22, 2023, said that several members of the ABVP had been arrested for allegedly attacking the vice-chancellor and other officials of the Deen Dayal Upadhyay University in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.

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