A video is circulating in which a person is calling for a boycott of a specific community, alleging that police raided 40 Muslim hotels along the Rajasthan-Gujarat-Maharashtra highway. The individual claims that these hotels were found to be serving adulterated food mixed with impotency drugs and non-vegetarian items. However, D-Intent Data has found that the images used in the video are from different incidents and locations and no such incident came to light recently.
Sharing the video on X (Formerly Twitter) serial fake news peddler and propagandist account @RealBababanaras wrote. Reportedly police raided 40 Muslim hotels on the Rajasthan-Gujarat-Maharashtra highway. A case of adulteration of impotence medicine and non-veg food came to light in these hotels.
Another propaganda account @FrontalForce has also disseminated the video and wrote. Shocking: Reportedly police raided 40 Muslim hotels on the Rajasthan-Gujarat-Maharashtra highway. A case of adulteration of impotence medicine and non-veg food came to light in these hotels.
Several other users, influencers and propagandists have also shared the video and made similar claims. Their posts can be seen here, @Vini__007, @Warlock_Shabby, @MithilaWaala
The truth about the claims, Fact Check
As soon as the posts containing the video and claims came to our notice. Subsequently, we conducted research and analysis of the claims and found that these claims were false and self-invented.
To verify the claims made by the users. We performed multiple reverse image searches of some key frames from the viral video on Google Lens. These actions led us to media reports and police sources containing the same images used in the viral video.
The image of a group of people in police custody was from Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh where six people were arrested for smuggling illegal weapons in Madrasa in July 2019.
Another image depicting an individual preparing food was taken from a YouTube video uploaded in July 2016.
The image of drugs is from Sri Lanka where an elderly man and his son were taken into STF custody along with a stock of illegal drugs worth Rs.4 million when their house was raided at Wolfendhal Street in Colombo, in May 2019.
Source: dailymirror.lk
Therefore, it is evident from verified sources that the entire video was based on false information. All the images used in the video are old and from different incidents and locations.
Intent
Social media users, influencers and propagandists are circulating videos based on false information to set their narrative based on religion.
Conclusion
Claim– Police raided 40 Muslim hotels along the Rajasthan-Gujarat-Maharashtra highway. These hotels were found to be serving adulterated food mixed with impotency drugs and non-vegetarian items.
Fact– All the images used in the video are old from different incidents and locations. No such news came to light recently.
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