A disturbing video recorded after a college student from West Bengal's Alipurduar district was violently attacked by her classmate, is circulating on social media with a false and communal claim that a Hindu girl was attacked by a Muslim boy.
BOOM spoke to local police who confirmed both the victim and assailant are Muslims.
The viral video shows a young woman weeping and narrating the incident to someone, whom she addresses as 'uncle'. The woman can be seen bleeding from her neck and face. She can be heard saying that she was slashed with a blade.
Several right-wing Twitter handles have falsely claimed that the incident in the video is another instance of 'love-jihad.'
A Twitter user named 'JatayuOSINT' tweeted the video with the caption claiming the girl is a Hindu, "H girl attacked with sharp blade yesterday afternoon in Kochbihar, Falakata, West Bengal by MD Fayaz Ahmed. Fayaz attacked her in front of Alipur Doar College." (sic.)
Click here to see the video and here for an archived link.
(Note: The video is disturbing in nature)
A collage of the screenshot of the video and an image of the attacker was tweeted by verified handles including Kreately Media and Arun Pudur, with the same 'Love Jihad' claim.
Pudur captioned the collage as, "West Bengal: Md. Fayez Ahmad attacked Hindu girl with sharp blade when she found out his real name and rejected him."
BOOM has earlier fact checked both handles for spreading fake news. Read here and here.
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