"A Bangladeshi jihadist was giving false advice to Hindu girls at Delhi University to lure them into love jihad. Then, the female students mustered courage, caught the jihadist red-handed, and beat him with shoes and slippers. They then handed him over to the police," reads a Hindi-language Facebook post shared on April 28, 2026.
The attached video -- viewed more than 200,000 times -- shows a crowd surrounding a car as women hit a man inside with slippers.
Far-right Hindu groups in India coined the term "love jihad" in reference to a supposed campaign by Muslim men to seduce Hindu women into converting to Islam (archived link).
Muslims are a minority in India, where critics say they face discriminatory treatment under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist administration (archived link).
Screenshot of the false post taken on May 15, 2026, with a red X added by AFP
The footage has spread elsewhere on Facebook and Instagram with the false claim, but a reverse image search using keyframes from the video found it was not filmed in India.
A similar video of the incident was posted on YouTube by Bangladeshi news outlet Banglanews24 on April 26 titled, "Dhaka University students pelt shoes at man accused of harassing a student" (archived link).
Other Bangladeshi news outlets reported on the incident that day, saying the man was handed over to the police after he was accused of sexually harassing women at Dhaka University (archived here and here).
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