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Claim
There is a claim about a video that the UP Police is lathi on the devotees who came to Mahakumbh.
Fact check
Boom found that this viral video is of an incident in Dhanbad, Jharkhand.
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A video of police lathi -charging on people is viral on social media. Users are linking the video to the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj, UP, claiming that the police are lathi on the devotees.
Boom found that the viral video is from Jharkhand. Dhanbad police of Jharkhand found the body of a young man in a drain in the city on the first day of the year (1 January 2025). Due to this, the family members of the angry youth demonstrated on the road outside the police station. Meanwhile, the police did this lathicharge.
In this video viral on social media, a girl is also saying that the police is to help people, not to torture people.
One on Facebook User Sharing this video, he wrote, ‘Getting up something like this. Has flopped completely. The Uttar Pradesh Police welcomes the bathing people in Mahakumbh bath. This is the Mahakumbh system of the Uttar Pradesh government, Gundaraj.
This claim on X too Video Is viral.
Uttar Pradesh Police welcomes bathing in Mahakumbh bath. This is the Mahakumbh system of Uttar Pradesh government ** Gundaraj ‘ @Colrohitchaudry @Devendrayadvinc @INCIndia @Incmaharashtra @INCMP @Jairam_ramesh @jitupatwari @kcvenugopalmp @Kharge @Priyankagandhi @Pawankhera, pic.twitter.com/tmuu0pku7i
– Commando Arun Gautam (@Arungautam_INC) January 28, 2025
Fact check
Case of murder of a young man in Jharkhand
Boom searched the viral video with Google lens to investigate the claim. We have a couple of people on social media Video meet. Post It was told that after the murder of a young man in Dhanbad, his family created a ruckus outside the police station, after which the police ran lathi.
After taking the signal from the concerned word, we have many media reports of this incident of January 2025 (Prabhat Khabar, Live Hindustan, Times Now Navbharat, ETV And Dainik Bhaskar) Found.
According to the report of Dainik Bhaskar, the Dhanbad police found the body of a youth in a drain in Vikas Nagar under Bank Mor police station area on 1 January 2025. Angered by the murder of the young man, his family members demonstrated on the road outside the police station. Meanwhile, the police did this lathicharge. Some visuals with viral videos can also be seen in the report.
Prabhat Khabar Ki Report According to, the police said that the accused Akash Kumar Sharma was sitting outside the house of Pappu Mandal in Vikas Nagar with a scooty. During this time, Ravi Kumar got heard from Rai about anything about him. As the dispute escalated, Ravi ran to kill the sky, which caused the sky to run away.
While running the sky, he fell into the drain and chasing him Ravi also fell into the drain. Meanwhile, Akash pressed Ravi’s head in water, due to which Ravi died on the spot due to suffocation.
It was told in the report that the police also found CCTV footage of this entire incident. Vibha Devi, the mother of the deceased, has accused of murder.
Police had lathi -charged the family members performing
According to the ETV report, his family and neighbors, angry at the murder of Ravi Kumar Rai, demonstrated by burning tires outside the Bank Mor police station and blocked the main road. The women also had a tip with the police who came to remove the crowd from the road. The police also lathi-charged to disperse the crowd.
In the report of Prabhat Khabar, the police station in -charge of the bank turn was quoted as saying, “The accused has surrendered. He has been sent to jail after registering a case of murder. People have trouble due to road jam. It was also a long jam.
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