A video with communal color is being shared on social media. In the video, it can be seen that a mob is vandalizing a religious place. It is being claimed that this video is from Bangladesh. Where the people of the Muslim community vandalized the temple.
- A verified user wrote – The condition of Hindus in Bangladesh is bad. People from the Muslim community are attacking and vandalizing Hindu houses, Hindu temples and Hindu institutions. Hindus of India should see this. ( archive )
- Another verified user named Rajesh wrote- See how Hindu temples were vandalized and Hindu devotees were killed in different cities of Bangladesh yesterday, but the whole world is silent on the massacre of Hindus in Bangladesh. (archive)
- Another verified user named Jitendra Pratap Singh also shared the video with the same claim and caption.
The truth behind the viral video…
To find out the truth about viral videos, we reverse-searched their key frames. On searching we found this informative video on a YouTube channel called The Metro TV.
In the title of this video on the channel, it is written – Ali Pagla's tomb is being demolished in Qazipur, Sirajganj. While, on this video channel August 29, 2024 was uploaded on In the next phase of investigation we looked for keywords related to this. On searching we found news related to viral video on local news website of Bangladesh. Website link…
Screenshot of news available on Bangladeshi news website.
According to the website, this video dated 29 August 2024 is from Qazipur in Sirajganj, Bangladesh. Where some people vandalized the dargah of Ali. After this incident, the villagers dismissed the imam of the mosque. At the same time, this news was published on the website on August 31, 2024.
It is clear that The claim made about viral videos on social media is completely false. The religious place seen in the video is not a temple but a dargah.
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