Police brutality video from Jaunpur, UP, falsely viral as Tamil Nadu incident

Following the alleged custodial death of a temple security guard in Tamil Nadu, a video depicting an alleged incident of police brutality has been gathering traction on social media. In the footage, two men can be seen restraining a man while a policeman beats him up with a belt. Users are sharing this video and claiming that the incident is from Tamil Nadu.

A user named Arjun tweeted the viral clip with the same claim, adding that the police department should be renamed as the brutality department of Tamil Nadu government. (Archived link)

A user named Selvakumar also made a similar claim while sharing the video. (Archived link)

Another user named Kumaran tweeted the video and wrote that people were being beaten up and tortured by the police in the name of interrogation. Kumaran used the hashtag ‘DMKFailsTN’ linking this video to Tamil Nadu. He later deleted this tweet.

Fact Check

Alt News performed a reverse image search using frames taken from the viral video. This led us to a report by UP Tak dated April 25, 2025 related to this video. The video report states that this case is from Mungra Badshahpur police station of Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, where SHO Vinod Mishra had assaulted a man with a belt.

The report states that the young man had given some money to the police officer for some work, but when it was not done, the young man went to ask for his money back. At this time, the SHO beat him up with a belt while some policemen pinned him against a pillar. Speaking on this matter, SSP Rural, Shailendra Singh stated that they had taken cognizance of the matter, and launched a departmental inquiry to investigate what had transpired. Along with this, he mentioned that the SHO had been shunted with immediate effect. This makes it evident that the viral video is not from Tamil Nadu, but from Uttar Pradesh. 

A report by India TV from April 24, 2025, also states that the incident is from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh and identifies the individual beating up the man in the video as Mungra Badshahpur police station-in-charge Vinod Mishra. This report, too, makes the point that the victim had given money to Mishra for some work, but when the work was not done, the youth asked for the money back from him, which was when the station in-charge started thrashing him.

Amar Ujala, too, reported on the incident of alleged police brutality. However, their report said it was a matter of domestic dispute in a family residing in Hemapur-Tarhathi area in Mungra Badshahpur Block in Jaunpur District. One of the parties involved in the dispute had allegedly given Rs. 26,000 to police, upon which police picked up the youth seen in the video from his house, tied him to a pillar in the police station and beat hm up severely. Although Alt News cannot confirm these allegations, it is clear that this video is not from Tamil Nadu, but from an incident in Uttar Pradesh.

To sum up, several users shared a video of a man being brutally beaten up by policemen inside a police station in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, with the false claim that it was an incident from Tamil Nadu.

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