A video that shows a group of people thrashing a boy who attacks girl with a sharp weapon in Kolkata has been shared claiming that a Muslim boy stabbed a Hindu girl in broad daylight, in West Bengal. However, D-Intent Data has found the accused boy was not a Muslim individual. The accused and victim belonged to the same community.
Sharing the video on X (Formerly Twitter) Nazia Elahi Khan wrote. Just watch how A Muslim boy stabbed a Hindu girl in broad daylight!! *Hindus are not SAFE under Mamata Raj!* Shocking!! Situation is horrible in WB. Will soon spread to Kolkata and rest of neihbouring states as well, where infiltrated Muslims from BD/Myanmar are being pushed from Bengal with paid Adhar/Voter ID/ and Ration Cards++ so keep voting TMC, to see more!! This can happen anytime with me too @MamataOfficial @KolkataPolice kindly take proper legal action. West Bengal is not Islamic state kindly understand @KolkataPolice.
Another user @BhartiyaAccount also shared visuals from the incident and made similar communal claims.
The truth about the video of a Boy attacks girl with a sharp weapon in Kolkata, Fact Check
As soon as the posts containing the sensitive visuals came to our notice. Subsequently, we conducted research and analysis of the incident and found that the victim and accused belonged to the same community.
To verify the claims made by the users. We performed a reverse image search of some key frames from the video on Google Lens. This led us to a media report containing the same visuals. According to the media report( TOI), Abhijit Dutta, a youth from Prafulla Nagar in Belgharia, on Wednesday (4 September ) afternoon attacked a 14-year-old girl in the middle of the road and stabbed her at least thrice with a sharp weapon after she reportedly slapped him following a lewd comment he made.
As per the report, Abhijit Dutta had earlier professed his love for the girl but she had turned him down. On September 4, 2024, when she was returning home from her school, an English-medium institute at Belgharia, Dutta again approached her and when she again refused him, he made a lewd comment, which prompted her to slap him. Later, he attacked the girl.
Therefore, it is evident from verified sources that the victim and accused belonged to the same community and the incident was not related to religion-based hate crimes.
Intent
Social media users and influencers are circulating sensitive videos with misleading claims to set their narrative based on religion.
Conclusion
Claim– The video shows a Muslim youth attacking a Hindu girl with a sharp weapon in West Bengal.
Fact– The accused was identified as Abhijit Dutta, nothing to do with a Muslim individual
