On April 16, communal clashes took place in the national capital’s Jahangirpuri area on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti. The police arrested 23 people from two communities following the violence. “Three processions were taken out that day to mark Hanuman Jayanti, Delhi police said. Trouble broke out during the third procession, for which no permission had been granted. Those who organised it allegedly took a route next to a mosque located close to a temple,” reported NDTV. In an interview, sub-inspector Medha Lal told India TV, “Women and children were pelting stones from rooftops.”
On April 16, several social media users (@ParwalPriyanka, @Sabhapa30724463, @Adodwaria, @PratapKeerti) shared a clip of police arresting a group of women. It has been claimed these were the women who “pelted stones”.
पत्थर फेंकने वाली महिलाओं की विदाई रस्म..
🙏🚩🙏 pic.twitter.com/r3kvvGnENh
— 🚩राष्ट्रवादी प्रियंका 🚩 (@ParwalPriyanka) April 16, 2022
Facebook pages ‘Jay Bangar page‘ and ‘The great leader modi‘ also shared this clip with a similar claim. It has gained over 39,000 views.
रामनवमीं की शोभायात्रा पर पत्थर रूपी पुष्प फेंकनें वाली अप्सराओं की विदाई धूमधाम से सरकारी गाड़ी से की जा रही हैं😁😁😁
#JayBangarBHILWARAPosted by Jay Bangar page on Friday, 15 April 2022
Unrelated video
Upon performing a reverse image search, Alt News found various posts that suggested the viral video dates back to 2020. According to a report by India Blooms News Service, the video is from UP’s Muradabad and was shot during COVID-19 lockdown.
The video description reads, “A team of doctors and medical staffers were attacked in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad town when they were visiting the area to escort the primary contacts of a COVID-19 positive patient, who died, to a quarantine facility on Wednesday.”
The viral portion beings from the 25-second mark.
At the 47-second mark, a medical professional dressed in a PPE kit told India Blooms News Service, “We were thrashed… they surrounded us. We had to run for our lives…. [another medical professional can be heard saying “We don’t want to do such jobs”]… we weren’t given any security…. only four police officials were there as opposed to the public who were in thousands…”
India Today and The Hindu also reported the incident. Amit Pathak, Senior Superintendent of Police, Moradabad, told the media that a crowd of around 150 people attacked the ambulance when a medical team was taking the family of the deceased for quarantine.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath issued a statement stating that the National Security Act and the National Disaster Act, 2005 would be invoked against miscreants in such cases and any loss to the public property would be recovered from them.
To sum it up, a clip from 2020 was shared with the claim that it is related to recent communal violence in Delhi.
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This content originally appeared on Alt News and was authored by Archit Mehta.
Archit Mehta | Radio Free (2022-04-18T15:55:05+00:00) Old video falsely shared as police arresting Muslim women after Jahangirpuri violence. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2022/04/18/old-video-falsely-shared-as-police-arresting-muslim-women-after-jahangirpuri-violence-2/
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