Udupi: On Monday, July 24, Rashmi Samant, a self-proclaimed Hindu Rights Activist, took to her Twitter account and made several misleading and false claims about the Udupi incident, where three students of a paramedical college allegedly filmed a fellow student in the restroom as part of a prank video and later deleted it.
The incident had gained attention on social media earlier last week and was later colored with a communal angle by right-wing users and misinformation peddlers, attempting to trigger hate and tension between communities in the sensitive coastal belt of Karnataka.
Rashmi Samant, along with other right-wing ecosystem users, made several claims that were later debunked by the Udupi Police. She mentioned that the three accused students "placed cameras in female toilets of their college to record hundreds of unsuspecting Hindu girls" and that "Videos and photos were then circulated in community WhatsApp groups by the perpetrators." However, the Udupi District Superintendent of Police, Hakay Akshay Machhindra, called a press conference and debunked both claims, asserting that the accused students and the girl who was filmed were acquaintances and that the video was shot as a prank.
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