The story uses only screenshots and not the actual video in view of its graphic nature.  A 1 minute 31 second video, in which two people are hung upside down and being beaten up, is viral with claims of torture on Hindus in Bangladesh. It is also cla… Read on blog or Reader Alt News Read on blog or Reader Bangladesh video of assault on suspected robbers viral with false Hindu-Muslim narrative By Kinjal on 10th March 2025 The story uses only screenshots and not the actual video in view of its graphic nature.  A 1 minute 31 second video, in which two people are hung upside down and being beaten up, is viral with claims of torture on Hindus in Bangladesh. It is also claimed that the two Hindu men were stripped of their clothes. X user Deepak Sharma, who amplifies misinformation and communal propaganda frequently on social media, shared the video with the same claim. The video garnered more than 44,000 views before it was taken down.  (Archived link) X user Atul Kushwaha also shared the video with the same claim.  Several other users on X also amplified the video with the same claim.  This slideshow requires JavaScript. ALSO READ: 'What is our fault?… that we are Hindus?' Tales of attacks on minorities pour in from Bangladesh Fact Check Alt News performed a keyword search to find out more about the incident shown in the video. We found several reports from Bangladesh which carried the same visuals. An article in The Business Standard dated February 25, 2025 stated that on the night of February 25, a mob had beaten up two people in Dhaka's Uttara, suspecting them to be robbers. They were hung upside down from a foot over bridge and assaulted. Uttara East police station in-charge Shamim Ahmed told the media that a group of people had allegedly caught these two red-handed. Police identified the two as Bakul and Nazim. Upon receiving the information, the police reached the scene and admitted both of them to the hospital. This slideshow requires JavaScript. The same information about the incident has been provided in another article. Here as well, the two victims were identified as Mohammad Nazim and Mohammad Bakul. This slideshow requires JavaScript. To sum up, a video from Dhaka of two people being beaten up on suspicions of robbery was falsely circulated on Indian social media with a false communal angle by calling it 'an incident of atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh'. ALSO READ: Homeless man's video from Bangladesh falsely shared as Hindu monk forcibly converted

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