Footage of a group of women beating a man with slippers has circulated online in Hindu-majority India alongside false claims it showed a Muslim man trying to seduce women into converting to Islam as part of a wider campaign. In fact, the footage was taken in neighbouring Bangladesh's Dhaka University and shows women hitting a man accused of harassing a female student before he was handed over to the police.
"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).
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...
Footage of a group of women beating a man with slippers has circulated online in Hindu-majority India alongside false claims it showed a Muslim man trying to seduce women into converting to Islam a...