On 19 August 2021 Police invoked the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against four persons out of 10 arrested so far for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans during a Muharram event in Ujjain of Madhya Pradesh. Meanwhile, a video of the assault has started going viral on social media. It is being claimed that it shows the boys arrested in case of alleged pro-Pakistan slogans at a Muharram procession on 19 August 2021.

The video shows a moving vehicle where uniformed personnel can be seen beating the boys, and one of the boys seems injured as he can be spotted bleeding from the forehead. The personnel can be heard abusing the boys and coercing them to chant anti-Pakistan slogans.

A Facebook user name Pandit Ram Sharma share a video with a claim that "Yesterday in Ujjain, Pakistan Zindabad slogans were raised, today their title has become viral, what is the fate of raising slogans".

The same post is also widely shared on Twitter with the same claim.

Fact Check

In our investigation, we found that the viral video is misleading. This video is more than four years old and is most likely to be of Kashmir.

After doing reverse image research on google using the keyframes of the video, we found that this video first came on the internet in April 2017. At that time some Pakistani news organizations had claimed that the Indian Army personnel in the video were behaving inhumanly with the Kashmiri youth. A Pakistani news channel name '24 News HD' share a video on 16 April 2017 with the caption  "Indian Army inhuman behavior with Kashmiri Youth".

Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq also tweeted this video on 15 April 2017. He wrote "Brutal assault on students in Pulwama today "Largest Democracy in the world" enforcing democratic principles!"

Some news was also published about the video in 2017. The video became viral on social media and the anger of the people of Kashmir erupted over it. People accused the Indian Army of assaulting the boys.

According to a report of "The Indian Express", at that time Defence spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said the veracity of the videos is being ascertained. “Action will be taken against those found guilty of misconduct,”.

In conclusion, an old video viral claiming that it shows the boys arrested in case of alleged pro-Pakistan slogans at a Muharram procession on 19 August 2021. The video has surfaced on social media for more than four years and is most likely to be of Kashmir and has no link to the recent incident of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.