An unrelated video is being attributed to the Killing of Indian Soldier Kartik Baliyan in Kanwar Yatra clashes - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
July 29, 2022
A video is being shared on social media claiming that Lord Shiva’s devotees have killed an innocent person named Kartik Baliyan. Let’s verify it via this article.
Claim: Devotees of Lord Shiva killed an innocent man named Kartik Baliyan.
Fact: The incident shown in the video took place during a DJ competition in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut District during the Kanwar Yatra. In another incident which took place in Uttarakhand, a person named Kartik Baliyan was killed in a clash between two groups participating in Kanwar Yatra. Kartik Baliyan is a soldier in the Indian army. The video shared in the post is not related to Kartik Baliyan’s death. Hence, the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
Searching on the internet with relevant keywords yielded few news reports related to the death of Kartik Baliyan. Baliyan, a soldier in the Indian army, was reportedly killed in a clash between two groups in Kanwar Yatra. The reports can be read here, here and here.
We also found a video on YouTube that is same as the one shared in the post; the video’s title reads ‘fight erupted between two groups of Kanwariyas during a DJ competition.’ Upon further research, we found few news reports related to the video.
Reportedly, two groups have clashed over a DJ competition in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut. They beat each other with sticks. The screenshots from the news report match the visuals from the video of the original post. These reports can be seen here and here.
Meerut police have also clarified about the incident via Twitter. In response to a tweet posted by a user, Meerut police have tweeted, ‘police station in-charge Kharkhoda has been informed for necessary action.’
आवश्यक कार्यवाही हेतु थाना प्रभारी खरखौदा को अवगत करा दिया गया है।
With all this information, we can conclude that the video of a fight in Uttar Pradesh is falsely attributed to Kartik Baliyan’s death in Roorkee, Uttarakhand.
To summarise, an unrelated video is being attributed to the killing of Indian soldier Kartik Baliyan who died in a fight that erupted during Kanwar Yatra.