A Twitter user Aman Khan shared a video in which a group of men can be seen as insulting and tearing the clothes of an old man while some young people are recording and watching videos on their mobile phones. The message with the video reads:
"So this is going to be new normal in Indian society! #ShamelessBJP is only working on hatred! More than a dozen #Rss_terrorists insulting Old man of theirs' father's age! So #NEW #IndiaThatIsBharat
#RIPHumanity #RevokeNSADrKafeel #SabYaadRakhaJaega"
You can watch the video here:
The video was initially shared by another Twitter user Yasmeen who didn't mention any context of the video.
We extracted keyframes of the video and did a reverse image search of those keyframes. We found a report by a Bangladeshi website mzamin.com dated 3rd June 2020. The incident took place on May 24 at Chayakuritikka Para in Ward 4 of Dhemushia Union in Chakaria Upazila of Cox's Bazar.
The victim has been identified as 72-year-old Mohammed Nurul Alam. Ashraf Hossain, the son of the victim filed a case against 8 accused.
You can watch the original unedited video here:
The video is from Bangladesh and has no link with RSS. It is being falsely shared as RSS members insulting and stripping an old man.
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