A video has been widely circulated, depicting a woman in a chaotic altercation involving several people, including security personnel and Pakistani lawyers. The video is accompanied by claims that the incident involves a Hindu girl who was kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan. It further alleges that when her younger sister intervened to assist her, she was violently kicked and subjected to severe torture. However, these claims are unfounded and not based on factual evidence.
The old video of Pakistani lawyers thrashing a woman was disseminated with misleading communal claims
Several users, influencers and propagandists have shared the video of a woman involved in a physical altercation with security personnel and Pakistani lawyers.
Sharing the video on X (Formerly Twitter) @sanjoychakra wrote. Pakistan- A Hindu girl was kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam. Her younger sister is trying to go to court to save her but she is being kicked & tortured horribly. The life of minorities like Hindus, Sikhs and Christians in Pakistan is very miserable.
During research, we found that the same video was circulated with similar communal claims in March 2024. Several users, influencers and propagandists have also shared the video and their posts can be seen here. Ajaychauhan41, @TeamJhaat_, @sanjoychakra, @Halfenginear
The truth about the viral video about Pakistani lawyers, Fact Check
As soon as the posts containing the video of a woman involved in a physical altercation came to our notice, we conducted research and analysis of the video and found that the video was unrelated to Pakistani Hindu women.
To verify the claims made by the users. We performed a reverse image search of some key frames from the viral video on Google Lens. This led us to several media reports containing the same visuals uploaded or published in October 2019. According to the media reports(TOI, Geo TV), this is an old video from Narowal, Pakistan. Where a girl, Amrat Shahzadi and her cousin Abdul Qayyum were beaten up by lawyers at a court in 2019.
According to Pakistani News ‘Dawn’. Amrit Shahzadi, a resident of Shahpur Bhangu village, visited a court in Shakargarh in connection with a land dispute. A group of people including lawyers thrashed her and her cousin Abdul Qayyum who was accompanying her. In an application to the city police station, Qayyum stated that they were in the chamber of Advocate Muhammad Atif Khan at Shakargarh court when Muhammad Waseem, Yasir Khan, Advocate Asif Sultan besides four or five other people stormed the chamber and abused them. Advocate Asif Sultan and Yasir Khan dragged Shahzadi out of the chamber and publicly beat her for pursuing the case.”
Hence, it is evident from D-Intent Data’s Fact Check that the entire incident has nothing to do with Hindu women and religious conversion.
Intent
Social media users, influencers and propagandists have circulated old videos from Pakistan. And making misleading claims to set their narrative based on religion.
Conclusion
Claim– A Hindu was kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan. When her younger sister intervened to assist her, she was violently kicked and subjected to severe torture.
Fact – The video is not related to Hindu women but a Muslim woman named Amrat Shehzadi who was beaten up at Shakargarh court in Narowal, Pakistan, in October 2019
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