A video of a Muslim scholar (Maulana) dragging an unconscious woman inside a room is going viral on social media. In this 2:20 long video, an old man dressed as 'Maulana' can be seen doing sorcery and exorcism on a woman. Later, he drags the unconscious woman into a room, where he gets interrupted and interrogated by the person shooting the video. The old man says that he is treating the woman as she does not have a child. Believing this video as a true incident, people on social media shared it with anti-muslim claims.
BJP's media panellist Prashant Umrao shared the video as a real incident on Twitter and wrote, "In the name of exorcism, people go to the Maulvis in the shrines. See what happens there."
Santosh Chauhan, a reporter, associated with Sudarshan News shared this video and wrote, "See this, the women who go to the mosques and shrines for treatment, they are treated like this by the servants of God."
A viral video shows a maulvi molesting an unconscious woman.
The Logical Indian fact-check team verified the viral claim and found it to be false. The viral video is scripted.
We used InVid's Keyframe Analysis tool during the initial investigation to isolate the video into keyframes. We then conducted a reverse image search on the isolated keyframes and found the extended version of the viral video shared by a Facebook user named Sheikh Aslam.
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