A video is being shared on social media claiming it as visuals from the funeral procession of Indra Meghwal, the nine-year-old boy who was allegedly beaten to death by a school teacher in the Jalore district of Rajasthan. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video showing the funeral procession of Rajasthan Dalit boy Indra Meghwal.
Fact: The video shared in the post shows the funeral procession of Jilajeet Yadav, an Indian army soldier who was martyred during the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama in August 2020. Jilajeet Yadav’s funeral procession took place at his native village in the Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh. The video is old and has nothing to do with the recent death of a Dalit boy in Jalore, Rajasthan. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
On reverse image search of the screenshots in the video, a video with similar visuals was found published by a few YouTube channels in August 2020. They can be seen here and here. These YouTube channels described it as the funeral procession of soldier Jilajeet Yadav in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Sowar Jilajeet Yadav was an Indian army soldier who was martyred during the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama in August 2020. Sharing a photo with similar visuals, ‘Amar Ujala’ published an article about the funeral procession of Jilaeet Yadav. Jilajeet Yadav’s funeral procession took place at his native village Dhaurhara Ijri in the Jaunpur district. A few other news articles and videos reporting Jilajeet Yadav’s funeral procession can be seen here, here and here.
Amid the escalation of tensions between protestors and police, Indra Meghwal’s body was cremated 40 hours after the consent of the family and the administration on 14 August 2022. A video showing the funeral procession of Indra Meghwal can be seen here. From all these pieces of evidence, it can be concluded that the video shared in the post is old and not related to the funeral procession of Indra Meghwal.
To sum it up, an unrelated old video is shared as visuals of funeral procession of the Dalit boy who was allegedly beaten to death by a teacher in Jalore, Rajasthan.
