2021 video from Delhi’s Yamuna Vihar viral with misleading claims of communal disharmony
A video, little more than a minute long, is viral on social media. It shows at least five injured men, their clothes stained with blood. Voices in the background suggest the presence of more people in the room. Children are also visible – among them, a wounded, dazed girl being attended to by a woman, and two children whose dresses are soaked in blood.
Users on social media have alleged that the viral video shows an influential Muslim family from Delhi’s Yamuna Vihar. Allegedly, the men in the video had protested the use of loudspeakers that were being used on the occasion of a religious program by a Hindu family in their lane. Users have suggested that this culminated in them being brutally beaten up by the Hindu family.
X user (@SanataniMuslim_) posted the video with the viral claim. (Archive)
X user (@geetappoo) also posted the video. At the time of this article being written, the post has garnered more than 8 lakh views. (Archive)
Another X user (@Vini__007) posted the video with similar claims. However, the tweet was later deleted. (Archive)
The video was also viral on Facebook with similar claims. Screenshots below:
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Fact Check
To verify the authenticity of the claims, we broke down the video into several keyframes. A reverse image search on one of these led us to a video on Instagram – which is the same as the one that recently went viral. We noticed that the video was uploaded on June 14, 2021.
The caption states: “Armed Hindutva mob, led by Vipin, attacked Muslim family at midnight in Delhi’s Yamuna Vihar injuring 14 people including 3 females. They called them Pakistanis and used other anti-Muslim slurs. This is second time family faced violence since Feb 2020.”
Taking cue from this, we ran a keyword search on Google, and came across a news report by The Indian Express, from June 15, 2021. The report states that ‘local residents from different communities’, in Delhi’s Yamuna Vihar area, had gotten into a heated clash over the opening of a gate in the area, on June 14.
According to the report, a resident from a nearby area, named Vipin Kumar, had tried accessing the gate late at night. Having found it locked, Kumar broke into an altercation with the security guard. At this juncture, another local resident, identified as Mohd. Yasin, along with some family members, intervened and reportedly rebuked Kumar. They allegedly assaulted him as well. In response, Kumar called his relatives to the spot, leading to a scuffle between the two groups. Several individuals from both sides sustained injuries during the altercation.
Moreover, we found an X post, from the official handle of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, of North East Delhi (@DCPNEastDelhi).
From this, it is evident that the incident was not communal in nature. The viral video, which is actually from 2021, has been amplified on social media with misleading claims, alleging that a Muslim family has been beaten up by a Hindu family for protesting the use of loudspeakers in a religious ceremony. On investigating, Alt News found that such claims are baseless.
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