The video shows the Bengaluru police escorting a man suffering from a mental health condition. The incident did not result in an FIR being filed.
Context
A video is circulating on social media where the police are taking away a burqa-clad woman and two men. The person recording the video and speaking in Urdu asks angrily how they could "grab that girl child" and tells the police not to let them go in Kannada. The police can be seen responding in Kannada, asking the person recording the video to come to the police station. The Hindi caption shared with the viral video says that child kidnappers were caught red-handed at a bus stop in Shivajinagar, Bengaluru. It adds that such people could easily be identified by their "clothes," referring to the burqa worn by the woman and the kufi cap worn by one of the men being escorted by cops.
Against the backdrop of upcoming elections in Karnataka, this viral post and claim have been amplified by right-wing propaganda social media accounts that often post misleading information. Sudarshan News, a right-wing news outlet often seen spreading misinformation, also shared this video, claiming that kidnappers were caught in the city. This claim has been circulating on Twitter since at least May 1 and has over 32k views.
In Fact
We could not find any local news reports of "child kidnappers" being arrested or any FIR being lodged regarding the same in recent weeks from Shivajinagar, Bengaluru.
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