A video of a group of individuals scaling the wall of a building is viral on social media. Users claim that the video is from Telangana and it apparently shows Muslims forcing their entry into Hindu homes while chanting slogans of 'Sar Tan Se Juda'. X user @hindugj tweeted the video with the same claim and remarked, "Protect yourself, otherwise, conditions like those in Kashmir will arise; no leader or media will come to save you, just as no one came to save the Hindus in Kashmir." (Archive)
Verified user @IRinitiPandey also tweeted the video with the same claim. The tweet has garnered close to 31,000 views. (Archive)
Several others shared the video on X (formerly Twitter) with the same claim. (Archives- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
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Fact Check
Upon a reverse image search of some key frames from the viral video, we found several news reports on an incident in Pakistan from August 2022.
An NDTV report revealed that the viral video showed a mob trying to climb a multi-storeyed building in Pakistan's Hyderabad city on August 21, 2022, to capture Ashok Kumar, a sanitation worker who had been accused of committing blasphemy. The report quoted a senior police official as saying that Kumar was accused of burning pages of a religious book. The charge, however, proved to be false.
The NDTV report contains key frames from the viral video.
According to a Firstpost report from the same time, Kumar had a narrow escape from death as the murderous mob gathered around his apartment building to lynch him. However, police managed to disperse the crowd and arrest Kumar. Kumar, a sweeper, was falsely accused of desecrating the Quran following a brawl with a Muslim shopkeeper. It was a Muslim woman who had burned the Quran, ANI reported citing local media.
Pakistani journalist Mubashir Zaidi tweeted a video of policemen dispersing a protesting crowd who were demanding Kumar's handover from the police to them.
Thus, it can be conclusively stated that the video viral on social media with claims of being from Telangana is an old video from Hyderabad city in Sindh province of Pakistan. The 2022 video shows a mob scaling the building of Hindu man named Ashok Kumar, who had been falsely accused of burning pages of the Quran.
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