A post accompanying the video of a mob assaulting a couple of young men is being shared with a claim that the video shows people of UP attacking the men accused of attacking & shaving off the beard of an elderly man in Ghaziabad. Let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video of people from UP attacking the men accused of attacking & shaving off the beard of an elderly man in Ghaziabad.
Fact: The video actually shows an incident of a mob beating up three men who allegedly tried to extort money from a vegetable seller by entering his house in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri area. Multiple news agencies have reported the incident. The video has nothing to do with the Ghaziabad incident. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
Google search with relevant keywords yielded few news reports which reported the same video. According to the NDTV report, the video actually shows an incident of a mob beating up three men who allegedly tried to extort money from a vegetable seller by entering his house in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri area. An FIR has been registered against these men.
TV9 Bharatvarsh and Republic Bharat have also reported the video. Even these reports confirm that the video is from Delhi’s Jahangirpuri area, wherein a mob attacked men who tried to extort money from a vegetable seller. Hence, it is evident that the video has nothing to do with the Ghaziabad incident or accused of the incident.
To sum it up, video of mob thrashing three men in Delhi is passed off as Ghaziabad accused thrashed by people of UP.
