Old visuals from Jharkhand passed off as Police manhandling a woman in Uttar Pradesh - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
March 29, 2022
A social media post accompanying a video of police manhandling and abusing a woman is being widely circulated attributing it to Uttar Pradesh. The post claims that these visuals show the state of UP police under the current Yogi Adityanath administration. Through this article let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Visuals of Uttar Pradesh police manhandling a woman.
Fact: These visuals are related to an incident that took place in Jharkhand back in 2020. As per the news reports, SHO of Sahibganj district’s Barhait police station manhandled a woman, who was at the police station in a case related to love marriage. The Chief Minister of the state took cognizance of the visuals and eventually the officer was suspended. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
The visuals are two years old and have nothing to do with Uttar Pradesh. Reverse image search of the screenshots of the video yielded multiple news articles which reported these visuals back in July 2020.
As per these reports, these visuals are from Jharkhand, wherein a police officer from Sahibganj district’s Barhait police station manhandled a woman, who was at the police station in a case related to love marriage.
Further, as the video went viral, the Chief Minister of the state took cognizance of the video, and through a tweet asked the DGP to investigate the incident, eventually, the officer was suspended.
यह सरासर अनुचित और शर्मनाक कृत्य है, जो बर्दाश्त के काबिल नहीं है। .@MVRaoIPS जी, मामले की जाँच करते हुए दोषी प्रभारी के ख़िलाफ़ कड़ी कार्रवाई करें एवं सूचित करें। https://t.co/6Ntthz7GP2
Few other news reports that reported the visuals as being from Jharkhand can be viewed here, here, and here. All these establish that the viral visuals are from Jharkhand and have nothing to do with Uttar Pradesh.
To sum it up, old visuals from Jharkhand are passed off as Police manhandling a woman in Uttar Pradesh.