Note: The report only uses blurred screenshots instead of the scripted clip because the visuals may be triggering for some readers.
A video showing a headless woman's body on railway tracks was circulated on social media with claims that the deceased woman was thrown under a moving train after being gangraped in Bangladesh.
A page on X (formerly Twitter) called Bangladesh Hindu Genocide shared the video with the hashtag '#Bangladesh Crisis'. The caption reiterated the claim and said, "Will this video of #NobelPeacePrize winner #Yunus's #militant rule attract the attention of the conscientious world?" (Archive)
While the user does not explicitly say it, they are likely hinting that the woman's ordeal reflected the predicament of minorities in the neighbouring country. Even after the new government under Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was formed in August last year, there have been several instances of communal attacks on minority communities in the country, including Hindus. However, amidst this, many false claims and misinformation have also been spread.
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A Facebook user from Bangladesh, Md Tarek, also shared the video with a similar claim. (Archive)
Fact Check
To verify the clip, we broke it into several key frames and ran these frames through a reverse-image search. This led us to a YouTube channel called 'JS HAUNTED VLOGS,' which shared the viral clip.
We noticed that the channel description said that the videos posted there were for entertainment. We also saw that the channel posted several other videos in which actors depicted headless people. These videos led us to believe that the viral clip was likely scripted.
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We then tried tracing those responsible for the page. An online search led us to a Facebook page with the same name: 'JS Haunted Vlogs'. The contact information on that page was of a Jitendra Singh Rawat from Ajmer, Rajasthan. Alt News reached out to Rawat who confirmed that the viral clip was indeed a scripted video shot in Ajmer. Rawat added that the headless bodies in the videos are actors or human-sized figures used purely for entertainment.
To sum up, claims that the video shows the severed body of a woman who was left to die after being raped in Bangladesh are false. Alt News' investigation revealed that it is a scripted video shot in Ajmer, Rajasthan, by a YouTuber named Jitendra Singh Rawat. It has no links to Bangladesh.
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