A video is being shared on social media claiming it as visuals of Muslims displaying a banner of Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati in Jaipur and openly threatening to kill him. This video shows a group of Muslims using abusive language against Narsinghanand Saraswati and demanding the arrest of the Hindu priest for his alleged derogatory comments against the Prophet and the Muslim community. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Recent video of Muslims in Jaipur displaying a banner of Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati and threatening to kill him.
Fact: The video shared in the post shows the visuals of a one-year-old protest that took place at the Ghat Gate Bazar area in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Jaipur Police through a tweet clarified that a viral video from April 2021 us being shared as recent visuals from Jaipur to spread religious hatred among the society. Hence, the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
On reverse image search of the screenshots in the video, a video with similar visuals was found in a Facebook post published on 15 April 2021. This Facebook user mentioned it as visuals of a protest held by Muslims against Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati in Jaipur.
When we searched for relevant sources using these keywords on the internet, we found the details of this video in an article published by the ‘TV9 Bharatvarsh’ news website. According to the article, the video shows a protest from April 2021 that took place at the Ghat Gate Bazar area in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Outraged by Narsinghanand Saraswati’s alleged derogatory remarks against the Muslim community, these Muslim youth reportedly made this video threatening Narsinghanand. According to the reports, eight members involved in the protest were arrested by the Jaipur police in April 2021. Clarifying the details of this viral video, several news websites have published articles in July 2022. A few of them can be seen here and here.
In April 2021, Delhi Police arrested Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati while accusing him of hurting religious sentiments with his remarks against the Muslim community during a press conference in Delhi. News articles that reported Muslim protests across the country over Narsinghanand Saraswati’s remarks can be seen here and here. Amid the escalating communal tensions over Nupur Sharma’s objectionable remarks about Prophet Muhammad, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati extended his support to Nupur Sharma, saying that she had said what was written in Islamic books.
Lately, when Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat tweeted this video making a similar claim, Jaipur Police responded to Shekhawat’s tweet and issued a clarification regarding this video. Jaipur Police confirmed it as an old video showing the visuals of a protest held in Jaipur city, in April 2021. Rajasthan Police had also published a tweet confirming it as a one-year-old video.
To sum it up, an old video is shared as recent visuals of Muslims openly threatening to kill Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati.
