By Kinjal

A video of policemen entering a government school along with a group of civilians is widespread on social media. The video shows Muslim men, women and children reading in a classroom and the police taking a few people in custody at the behest of the civilians complaining that Islamic texts were being taught in a government school. Viral claims suggest the school is located in Delhi’s Vijaynagar and was converted into a madrasa.

Twitter user ‘@rakesh_bstpyp’ wrote that Rohingyas had taken over Delhi’s government schools. The user identifies as an “editor of a newspaper” in his bio. The video racked up 46,000 views at the time of writing.

( Link https://twitter.com/rakesh_bstpyp/status/1464524702341238789?t=2XUDKAoSC5WiCpbTKfDWMA&s=19)

Several other Twitter users amplified the footage with the same claim.

( Link https://twitter.com/AshishJaggi_1/status/1464446160777609223?t=tOBX_FWLCBBa0vnfmCRNwQ&s=19)

Facebook user ‘Saffron Rajesh Singh’ also amplified the visuals, which garnered 3,900 views as of this writing.

( Link https://www.facebook.com/saffron.r.singh.1/videos/1240147796461752/)

The clip was also posted on Facebook and YouTube with the accompanying claim.

Fact-check
Upon taking a closer look at the video, we noticed a board in the background reading ‘Primary School Mirzapur’ in Hindi. This school is located in the Vijaynagar area of Ghaziabad. This means the incident occurred in Uttar Pradesh, not Delhi.

Alt News reached out to the Vijaynagar police station for more information. The SHO informed us about a man named Riyazuddin who lived with his family in the primary school located in Vijaynagar. He was employed as a janitor and lived on the school premises. When his children suddenly fell ill, he made a holy pledge to organise a reading of the Quran once they were back to full health. The video was filmed when the reading took place. Though the police did not find them to be conducting any suspicious or illicit activities on the school premises, the matter was being investigated upon the insistence of local residents.

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