A distressing video showing a man brutally assaulting a girl has gone viral on social media with a claim that the abuser belonged to the Muslim community and the victim was a Hindu.
The video was shared with a caption that read, "Mera Abdul aisa nahi hai" (My Abdul is not like that), a phrase that has been repeatedly used over the years to push the 'Love Jihad' narrative.
(Note: Due to the highly distressing nature of the video, we have refrained from using links to the video or its archives.)
The truth: According to the Sub-Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP), Naveen Dubey, both parties were from the Hindu community and also belonged to the same caste. He dismissed the false communal claims being spread with the video.
How did we find that out: We fragmented the video into multiple keyframes using the InVID WeVerify Google Chrome extension, and conducted a reverse image search on some of them.
While going through the results, we came across a tweet by Times Now journalist, Govid Gurjar, who said that case was from Rewa and that a case under section 151 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) (disturbing public peace) was registered and the accused was let go.
Taking a cue from the tweet, we conducted a keyword search and found several news reports talking about the assault and the subsequent arrest.
According to a report in the Hindustan Times, the accused was identified as one Pankaj Tripathi, a resident of Dhera, Madhya Pradesh.
The report further added that the accused and...
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