Over the past week, several social media users shared distressing footage showing a severely injured woman to insinuate that Hindu women were being exploited and tortured in Bangladesh.
The video shows a bleeding woman, sitting by the road, barely able to string together words coherently. When asked where her house is, she replies indistinctly. Those around her then ask if she is from Murshidabad, she nods in agreement.
On January 25, X account @Bangladesh_Fact shared this footage, claiming that it was from the country ruled by “fascist Yunus,” who “fosters terrorism”. (Archive)
Two days later, the graphic video was amplified by X account @ajaychauhan41. The accompanying caption in Hindi said: “Naked women! Mother and sister stripped naked! Naked red freedom…! This is not a film shoot! This is an anti-Hindu picture of the new country of the Islamic Yunus government of Bangladesh which promotes extremism!” (Archive)
The post acquired around 207,000 views.
Other social media users also shared similar claims:
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While trying to authenticate the video, Alt News found a similar clip shared on Facebook on January 22. Rekha Patra, a BJP-nominated candidate from Sandeshkhali, West Bengal, posted a video with similar visuals claiming that a woman was hacked to death in a village falling under the Bakultala Police’s jurisdiction in Jayanagar.
Taking cue from this, we tried a Bengali keyword search, which led us to several news reports on the incident. A report by TV9 Bangla said that a woman’s body was found in the Jayanagar constituency with her face smashed. A local toto driver found her lying in a bloody state next to an empty paddy field in the Anandapur-Rathtala area of Mayahauri gram panchayat late on January 21. He called people in the nearby area and informed the chief, who in turn, informed the Bakultala police. The cops reached the spot, rescued the woman and took her to Nimpeeth Rural Hospital where they pronounced her dead on arrival.
An ABP report said that the woman’s body had wounds that seemed to indicate that she was attacked with a weapon. One side of her face was crushed and teeth broken and locals reportedly said that she was bleeding profusely.
Zee 24-ghanta‘s report added that CCTV footage identifying the murder suspect was released and police have started investigating. “Bakultala police are searching for a suspicious bike and a suspicious person caught on CCTV in the area. According to sources, the person and two people on a bike may be involved in the incident,” it said. However, the identity of the deceased woman remained unknown.
Online news portal Nirvik Barta also documented the incident on its YouTube channel.
The video includes footage of the crime scene, where the police can be seen marking the area. The brick road too is visible. In the report, a man named Abdul Salam explains that he approached the distressed woman and asked her where her house was. Owing to the injuries on her face, he couldn’t understand her response and repeated “Murshidabad?” to which she nodded. Note that Murshidabad is a city in West Bengal.
News reports by Sangbad Pratidin and Hindustan Times Bangla identified the victim as Latifa Khatun and the accused as Giyasuddin Gazi, a resident of Manirtat, which falls under the Bakutala police’s jusrisdiction. Gazi reportedly confessed that he had called Khatun to his home in the area to kill her.
Alt News reached out to Bakultala police who confirmed that they managed to track down and detain the alleged perpetrator—her husband—on January 28. The police also clarified that domestic feud led to the woman getting killed and there was no communal factor in this case. The woman was from Murshidabad while her husband was from the Jaynagar area. Both belonged to the Muslim community.
To sum up, the video is from West Bengal and not Bangladesh and has been wrongly given a communal tinge.
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This content originally appeared on Alt News and was authored by Ankita Mahalanobish.
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