The viral video was shot in Chittagong’s Hathazari in March 2021. The viral video was shot as PM Modi was visiting Bangladesh, and protests were being held across the country against his visit.
A video showing the retrieval of a ruptured gas cylinder meant for domestic use from under a train on a railway track is doing rounds on social media. While sharing the video, some internet users connected it to the recent triple train collision in Odisha and suggested it to be a larger conspiracy to cause similar accidents at multiple locations countrywide.
While giving this video a communal spin, people claimed that the video was recently shot in Karnataka and alleged that people of the Muslim community use their children for train derailments. The Logical Indian fact check team verified the viral claim.
While giving Odisha train accident a communal angle, people on social media claimed that the station master of the Bahanga Bazar railway station (the nearest railway station to the accident side) is a Muslim identified as Sharif Ali and he fled the accident site.
The viral image is from Egypt and shows a man carrying a mannequin. No communal angle was involved in this case. Hence, the viral claim is false.
The image shows the ISKCON temple in the vicinity of the rail accident. The white structure is not a mosque as claimed by social media users.
The accused in the molesting incident are not from the Muslim community as is confirmed by Gaya Police. Three persons have been arrested for the crime.
We found that both images do not show hoardings and graffiti posted ahead of PM Modi’s Rajasthan visit. The images date back to 2019 and were shot in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal respectively.
We found that the viral video shows a rehearsal of a play and not the training of girls to offer namaz. The Baghpat police and media reports confirmed that the viral video shows a rehearsal and not a situation with a communal angle.
The image shows Resham Khan, the victim of an acid attack, at the hands of John Tomlin, who was reportedly ’emotionally unstable’. The attack was also treated as an Islamaphobic crime by police.
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