By Anuradha Prasad & Kinjal

A video of a mob of Muslim men thrashing a man has been merged with another video of a man tied down and his throat slit with a sword. The merged videos are massively widespread on WhatsApp with the claim that an RSS worker was dragged inside a mosque in Kerala and beheaded.

The same video was earlier shared the claim that Hindus were attacked by Muslims. Alt News had received several requests on its WhatsApp helpline number (+91 76000 11160) to fact-check the videos.

[Viral Hindi text: मित्रो, हिन्दू के बेटे हो तो और भारत मे जन्म लिया है तो,आपके जितने ग्रुप हो 10,20,30 के उससे भी ज्यादा तो उन सारे ग्रुप्स में इस मैसेज को शेयर करो ताकि कुछ दोगले हिंदुओ को असली भाई चारा समझ में आ जाए और इसको इतना फेलावो की मैसेज हमारे प्रधानमन्त्री श्री नरेन्द्र मोदीजी तक पहुच जाए।]

Below are a few frames of the merged videos. Alt News is not uploading them in this report due to the graphic nature of the second clip.

Fact-check

Both the videos pertain to different incidents and one of them is not from India. Alt News has debunked both in the past.

Video 1

The first video of a Muslim mob thrashing a man was shared against the backdrop of the West Bengal elections earlier in May. The incident had taken place in Uttar Pradesh.

A lineman from Sikri, Muzaffarnagar district was indeed beaten up by some locals. According to a report published in Amar Ujala on May 5, 2021, Anuj went to Sikri to fix a fault in an electricity line. “One Salman from the village came with his brother Ayyaz and the duo asked Anuj to change their cable. Anuj denied doing the favour and asked them to present the order from the JE first. The accused allegedly called their friends Rafi, Khalid, Naaz, Aas Mohammed, Abid and one unnamed person and started abusing Anuj,” per the report.

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