Video of Men Being Paraded In Indore Viral With False Communal Claim
By Hazel Gandhi An old video showing the police parading a group of half-naked Muslim men on the streets is viral online with a false and communal claim that they were being punished for pelting stones at Hindu houses on the occasion of Eid. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video is from 2023 and then SHO of Sadar Bazar police station, Indore, confirmed that there was no communal angle to the incident. The video shows a group of half-naked men tied together with ropes being paraded on the streets as punishment by the police. News outlet The Free Press Journal carried this old video as...