A video of a bearded man being verbally abused and physically assaulted is circulating on the internet. Additionally, in the video, the assailants can be heard stating that the man had been caught urinating on a banner. Media outlets and social media users have given this incident a communal turn, claiming the accused was a Muslim who urinated on a banner of the Maha Kumbh Mela and a wall with images of Hindu deities.
In the video, the victim can be seen joining his hands and asking for forgiveness. Another man can be heard stating that the accused had consumed alcohol. The victim is dragged along and made to sit in front of a wall adorned with banners.
Asianet News published an article on January 11, 2025, with a headline stating, "Muslim youth beaten up, detained for urinating on Kumbh banner." The report states that a Muslim youth was beaten up by a mob on the charge of urinating on a Kumbh banner. Police was informed and the accused was detained. They added, "Not much information is available about who this young man is and what he does. The police have not yet taken any action against the mob that attacked the young man."
UttarPradesh.ORG News shared the video on X and wrote that a young man from "another community" was beaten up by the locals on the accusation of urinating on the Maha Kumbh banner. People present in the area caught the young man and thrashed him after chasing him down. A video of the incident went viral on social media. Upon receiving the information, the police arrived at the scene and took the young man into custody. (archive)
X user Baba Banaras posted the video on January 14 claiming that a Muslim man had been found urinating on the photos of Maha Kumbh and Hindu deities featured on a wall in Rae Bareilly. (archive)
Readers should note that AltNews has debunked several cases of misinformation shared by the X user, Baba Banaras.
Frontal Force also reshared the tweet by Baba Banaras with a similar claim. Later, the post was deleted.
Another X user, Dr. Linda Mikhaylov, shared the video with the claim that local people caught a Muslim terrorist urinating on the Mahakumbh banner who was heavily beaten by them. She poses her concern in the caption saying "Now Muslims have problem with the banner of Maha Kumbh also." (archive)
Several other social media users have shared the video accompanied by similar claims. A few of them are featured in the gallery below:
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Fact Check
Raebareli police issued a statement on January 11, 2025, to clarify that the name of the accused was Vinod and the claim that the youth belongs to another community was entirely false and baseless.
According to the police statement, Vinod is a resident of Kannauj district who works as a vendor and travels around the market riding his bicycle. On the night of January 10, 2025, at around 8 pm, Vinod was sitting near a wall in Bachhrawan block while being highly intoxicated. In his drunken condition, he started to urinate about 3-4 feet away from the wall, the statement clarified. It further mentioned that some people present at the scene objected to his actions, accused him of being from another community, and began assaulting him. However, people who knew Vinod intervened and ultimately took him away from the spot.
To sum up, the media outlets Asianet News and Uttarpradesh.ORG News misreported the incident based on false social media posts. According to the Raebareli police statement, the man accused of allegedly urinating on a banner of Maha Kumbh Mela was identified as Vinod, a Hindu vendor. Police clarified that he had not urinated on the wall and that he was in a state of intoxication. There is no communal angle to the case.
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