Was the man beaten up for taking down the saffron flag: Claim, public chased Abdul and beat him up; Know the truth of the viral video

A video is going viral on social media. In this video, a crowd is seen pushing and beating a person. The tweet related to this claim was made by an ex-user named Vinod Sharma. In his tweet, Vinod had written – Congress leader Abdul was chased and beaten by the public for removing the saffron flag in Rajasthan, it has already begun. (Archived tweet) See tweet: By the time this news was written, this tweet of Vinod Sharma had been liked by 17 thousand people. At the same time, it was reposted 4500 times. During the investigation, we also found a tweet by an ex-user named Dushyant Sharma. In this tweet, it was written – Congress leader Abdul was beaten by the public for removing the saffron flag. (Archived tweet) See tweet: What is the truth of the viral video? To know the truth of the viral video, we reverse searched its key frames on Google Image. This revealed that this incident was not recent but of the year 2018. Also, the claim that the name of the person surrounded by the crowd is Abdul was also wrong. We found an article related to this entire incident on the website of News18 Hindi. The headline of the article was – VIDEO: Video of former MLA Ramkesh Meena being beaten up by miscreants goes viral. It was told in the news that – A video of Gangapur City’s former MLA Ramkesh Meena being beaten up by miscreants went viral on social media. In the video, miscreants were seen chasing and beating Ramkesh Meena. See screenshot: You can read the archive version of this article published on 7 April 2018 by clicking here. It was told in the article – In protest against the changes in the SC/ST Act, former MLA of Gangapur City Ramkesh Meena was leading the protest and was sitting on a dharna with his supporters in front of the subdivision office from March 30. He also led the rally taken out during Bharat Bandh on April 2. However, during this time, the situation in Gangapur City deteriorated and miscreants carried out incidents of stone pelting and arson at various places in the town. During this time, Ramkesh Meena came to convince the rioters but the rioters did not listen to him. The angry mob attacked Ramkesh Meena and tore his clothes. During this, someone made a video of him which went viral on social media. It is clear that the claim being made on social media that Muslim man Abdul removed the saffron flag and due to this the angry mob beat him is completely false and misleading. Join us against fake news. If you have any doubt on any such information, then email us @fakenewsexpose@dbcorp.in and WhatsApp – 9201776050
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