A social media post accompanying a video of a woman thrashing a Muslim man in a train is being circulated widely with a claim that the incident is a consequence of the ‘Kashmir Files’ movie. Through this article let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Visuals of a woman thrashing a Muslim man in a train – Consequence of the Kashmir Files movie.
Fact: The viral visuals predate the Kashmir Files movie. These visuals are related to an incident wherein Madhu Sharma, disciple of controversial religious leader Yati Narsinghanand thrashed a Muslim man in train for allegedly pushing her while passing through the coach, back in October 2021 much before the release of the movie. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
These visuals are related to an old incident, wherein Madhu Sharma, a disciple of controversial religious leader Yati Narsinghanand thrashed a Muslim man in a train for allegedly pushing her while passing through.
Google search with relevant keywords yielded multiple news articles which reported similar visuals back in October 2021. As per these reports, Madhu Sharma thrashed the Muslim man for allegedly pushing her and she also made him touch her feet, which is also evident from the viral video.
Few other news articles which report the visuals can be read here, here and here. However, these visuals predate the Kashmir Files, a movie based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits during the Kashmir insurgency in the 1990s. The movie was released on 11 March 2022, whereas the viral visuals show an incident that happened in October 2021.
To sum it up, these visuals of a woman thrashing a Muslim man in a train predate the Kashmir Files movie.
