PM Narendra Modi and the MP government are the targets of a sensitive and disturbing video that has gone viral. It depicts a group of people torturing a woman while hanging her on a tree.
Verified accounts on twitter, including Aafrin (“@Aafrin7866“) tweeted “This video is of BJP government in Madhya Pradesh. Look at the condition of daughters under Modi rule”. The tweet was made on Nov 23, 2023, which has received an about 109k views on X. The archive can be read from above.
ये विडियो मध्य प्रदेश में भाजपा सरकार की है।
— Aafrin (@Aafrin7866) November 23, 2023
मोदी राज में बेटियों का हाल देखिए pic.twitter.com/qLzj1kKe9s
@ShaykhSulaiman tweeted “WOMAN BEING BEATEN BY MEN IN INDIA” on March 9, 2024. Again, to support the claim made, he further made a tweet on March 13, 2024 sharing the same video.
What is the Actual Truth About this Video? : Fact
We discovered that this is an old video from the Alirajpur district, which is dominated by Adivasis. In June 2021, the woman was beaten up by her father and brothers for fleeing her husband’s home and going to a relative’s place. Her parents believed that this might have an impact on their social status.
We visited Times of India, which published an article on this incident on Jul 3, 2021, with the headline “Madhya Pradesh girl tied to tree, beaten by kin for running away from husband”.
An article was even posted by aajtak, which was published on July 2, 2021, which clarified all the details about this incident.
All of the accused individuals involved in the incident faced legal action. The incident is not recent and is a personal matter rather than being connected to the general, gender-biased mob lynching.
D-Intent’s Fact-Checking Results:
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ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT: A disturbing and sensitive video that shows a group of people torturing a woman while hanging her on a tree has been shared targeting the MP government and PM Narendra Modi. We found that this is an old video from Adivasi dominated district (1/3) pic.twitter.com/r3Dfzcherd
Intent:
User circulating old videos with misleading claims to target the government.
Conclusion:
Claim : A disturbing and sensitive video depicting a group of people torturing a woman while hanging her from a tree has been circulated, aimed at the MP government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Fact : We discovered that this is an old video from the Adivasi-dominated district of Alirajpur, where the woman was beaten up by her father and brothers in June 2021 because she ran away from her husband’s house and went to a relative’s house. Her parents were concerned that this would harm their social standing. All of the accused in the incident were punished. The incident is not recent and has nothing to do with the gender-biased general mob lynching, but is a personal matter.