A disturbing old video is circulating online with a false claim that it shows a woman being punished by a village court in India for resisting rape. In reality, the incident occurred in Madhya Pradesh’s Alirajpur district in 2019, where the woman was allegedly beaten and paraded half-naked by members of her community for being in a relationship with a man from another tribe.
Sharing the video on X (Formerly Twitter) serial fake news peddler and propagandist account @T_A_backup wrote. “While hindu liberals enrage and support women rights in Iran or Afghanistan, they never cry about women rights in India. BTW, this poor woman is being punished by a village court in India just because she resisted being RAPED.”
The truth about the video, Fact Check
As soon as the posts containing the video and claims came to our notice. Subsequently, we conducted research and analysis of the incident and found that the video was old and unrelated to rape.
To verify the claims made by the users. We performed a reverse image search of some key frames from the viral video using Google Lens. This led us to media reports containing the same visuals. According to a media report, a 19-year-old tribal woman in Madhya Pradesh’s Alirajpur district was allegedly beaten up and paraded half-naked by the members of her community for being in love with a man from another tribe. The incident is from 2019.
Therefore, it is evident from D-Intent Data’s Fact Check that the video was old and unrelated to rape.
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ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT: An alarming old video of a mob beating a woman is being spread with a misleading claim that she is being punished by a village court in India just because she resisted being raped. The fact is the woman was allegedly beaten up (1/2) pic.twitter.com/3MLp3Mnrjg
Intent
Propagandists and extremists are circulating old videos with misleading claims to set their narrative to target a particular community.
Conclusion
Claim– The video depicts a poor woman being punished by a village court in India just because she resisted being raped.
Fact – This is an old video from Madhya Pradesh’s Alirajpur and unrelated to rape.
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