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A video of a woman seemingly mixing urine in juice is being circulated online with the claim that the woman is Farida Khatoon, who works as a maid at a Samajwadi Party leader’s house.

Verified X handle Amitabh Chaudhary (@MithilaWaala 1 ), which shares misinformation and communal propaganda on a regular basis, shared the video calling it an act of ‘Food Jihad’. “When will Hindus realise , we are all kaafir to them, our caste , state , language or political ideology don’t make any difference… !!,” the user wrote.

Another verified X handle, @RealBababanaras, which identifies itself as pro-Right, shared the video with the same claim and urged Hindus, whom he sarcastically called ‘Kafirs’, to choose house helps ‘carefully’. The tweet was later deleted. (Archive 4 )

Several other X users amplified the video with similar claims. Some claimed that the incident occurred at a Hindu household while others claimed that it happened at a Samajwadi Party leader’s house. (Archives- 1 5 , 2 6 , 3 7 , 4 8 , 5 9 , 6 10 )

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Fact Check

Upon a reverse image search of one of the keyframes of the viral video, we were led to a 2016 publication of the same video on the Spanish website El Mundo 12 . Below is a screenshot of the translated webpage.

Upon a reverse image search on another keyframe from the video, we found a Daily Mail 13 article on April 26, 2016, containing the same video. Daily Mail reported that the video showed the “disgusting moment a maid pours her own urine in her boss’s juice”. The article stated that the incident happened in Kuwait and cited local reports while saying that the head of household revealed his shock when watching the footage and sent a message of warning for other local people to be cautious of the behaviour of their maids.

Indian media outlet OneIndia had also published the same video in 2016. This report also states that the incident occurred in Kuwait.

It can thus be conclusively stated that the incident of the woman mixing urine with juice is not from India. It is a nine-year-old video from Kuwait.

The post Old video from Kuwait falsely shared as Muslim maid mixing urine into juice at SP leader’s home 14 appeared first on Alt News 15 .


This content originally appeared on Alt News 16 and was authored by Shinjinee Majumder.

Citations

[1]https://archive.ph/642MC[2]https://t.co/WMUy87zrgV[3]https://twitter.com/MithilaWaala/status/1881031826040623199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw[4]https://archive.ph/wInbY[5]https://archive.ph/6R083[6]https://archive.ph/HeGJH[7]https://archive.ph/IhlKo[8]https://archive.ph/U50W4[9]https://archive.ph/7UF9K[10]https://archive.ph/hOnXU[11]https://www.altnews.in/old-video-from-kuwait-falsely-shared-as-muslim-maid-mixing-urine-into-juice-at-sp-leaders-home/#gallery-293189-2-slideshow[12]https://www.elmundo.es/f5/comparte/2016/04/27/674a385a2248f939058b45f0-video.html[13] Secret camera catches moment Kuwait maid pours her own URINE in her boss's juice | Daily Mail Online ➤ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3559049/Secret-camera-catches-disgusting-moment-maid-pours-URINE-boss-s-juice.html[14]https://www.altnews.in/old-video-from-kuwait-falsely-shared-as-muslim-maid-mixing-urine-into-juice-at-sp-leaders-home/[15]https://www.altnews.in/