A video of an old man being beaten up is going viral on social media. The video shows a man breaking the glasses of an old man and then slapping him. Verified ex user Karishma Aziz wrote in her tweet – Whoever this coward is, he is a very low and degraded person, how is he beating an old man, he broke his glasses, as soon as he saw the beard and cap, the devil inside him woke up! Such people must be doing the same with their parents at home, they must be growing up in old age homes! (Archive tweet) See tweet: AIMIM leader Waris Pathan also tweeted this viral video and wrote – What a lowly beast he is, he first breaks the glasses of an old bearded Muslim and then beats him so badly. This beast should be taken into custody and beaten up like this. This beast must have beaten his father and grandfather in the same way at home. Shameful. (Archived tweet) See tweet: On the other hand, an ex-account named inspiretrail wrote in its tweet – I don’t know where this video is from, but whoever this coward is, he is a very lowly, degraded and Sanghi person. How he is beating an old man, broke his glasses, as soon as he saw the beard and cap, the devil inside him woke up! (Archived tweet) See tweet: What is the truth of the viral video? To know the truth of the video, we reverse searched its key frames on Google Image. Investigation revealed that this video was not from India but from Bangladesh. On a website named bdnews24.com, we found detailed news related to this incident. The headline of the news was – Former freedom fighter beaten up; In the video viral article, it was told that this incident took place at the District Commissioner’s Office in Barguna, Bangladesh. Freedom fighter Abdur Rashid Mian had reached the Commissioner’s Office around 10:30 in the morning, where a youth named Shaon Molla beat him up. Shaon is the son of former district BNP president Mahbubul Alam Farooq Molla. During the investigation, we found an article from Dhaka Tribune. In this article, it was told that BNP leaders had alleged that Rashid Mian used to get people’s names included in the list of freedom fighters by taking money. BNP also alleged that on Rashid’s recommendation, the names of many of their leaders were removed from the list of freedom fighters and this was the reason for this quarrel. Screenshot of Dhaka Tribune’s article . It is clear that the video which social media users are considering as from India is actually from Bangladesh. At the same time, the claim being made about the video with a communal angle is also completely wrong. Join us against fake news. If you have any doubt on any such information, then email us @ fakenewsexpose@dbcorp.in and WhatsApp – 9201776050
