A video showing a mob vandalising a railway station in West Bengal is being shared on social media with a claim that the group went violent because a train horn allegedly disturbed their prayers.
However, we found out that the video dates back to 2019's anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protest and is from the Naopara Mahishasura railway station in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal.
CLAIM
One of the captions of the viral video said, "Mahishashur raillway station in Murshidabad, Bengal being destroyed. Reason: The sound of the train whistle is disturbing their Namaaz. We can see the future of India. #BengalModel (sic)."
Archived versions of similar posts can be seen here, here, here, and here.
The Quint also received a query about the video on its WhatsApp tipline.
WHAT WE FOUND OUT
In the 1:49 minute-long video, we can see the location's name as 'Naopara Mahishasur' written on a wall. The station comes under Murshidabad district of West Bengal.
We then fragmented the video into multiple keyframes using InVID Google Chrome extension and followed it up with a reverse image search. This led us to a Facebook post from 2019 which carried similar videos from different angles.
This old post included multiple videos showing vandalisation at Naopara Mahishasura railway station and mentioned the reason of the violence to be anti-CAB protests.
On comparing the 2019 video with the viral video, we can notice the same man in a blue shirt vandalising the railway station.
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