Old Video of Two Men Apprehended in Alipurduar Falsely Linked to Murshidabad Violence

After the Waqf Amendment Act Bill was passed Rajya Sabha on April 4 2025, West Bengal’s Murshidabad witnessed a series of unrest. The protest, which began against the enacted Waqf Bill, escalated into violent clashes, arson, and vandalism. Members of the Muslim community are leading the protest against the bill, believing that its implementation would threaten their religious and property rights.

Although West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has assured that this law will not be implemented in the state, protest still intensified, particularly in Murshidabad.

Amidst the unrest, a video is going viral on social media in which a crowd is seen surrounding two individuals dressed in Muslim attire. It is being claimed that these two men, apprehended in Murshidabad, are actually Hindus from Bihar who allegedly entered the state disguised as Muslims with the intent to provoke unrest. Meanwhile, some handles have also claimed that these individuals were actually caught by local residents in Alipurduar amidst the violence in Murshidabad.

Sagarika Ghose wrote, “EXPOSED. Hindu youths from Bihar dressed as Muslims, swarm into Bengal. #Mursidabad . Who is bringing them in?” (Archived link)

Karishma Aziz stated, “They won’t change — now that they’ve made Jews their masters, they’re following the same ways!” (Archived link)

Kavish Aziz asserted, “Two Hindu youths from Bihar, wearing caps, have been caught in Murshidabad, West Bengal. The local people apprehended them, as they had allegedly come there with the intention of disturbing the atmosphere.” (Archived link)

The handle Ek Tha Tiger stated, “BJP’s dirty politics exposed. Two Bihari youths, disguised as Muslims to incite violence, were caught by local residents. One of them has been identified as Ashish Kumar.” (Archived link)

Ritesh Deshmukh parody handle asserted that in West Bengal’s Murshidabad, two Hindu extremists were caught wearing Muslim attire. The fact that such individuals were caught amid the riots clearly indicates that the violence is part of a planned conspiracy. And we don’t need to tell you who is really disturbing the peace in the country. You all are smart enough to understand that much. (Archived link)

The Muslim handle claimed, “Some individuals from Bihar, disguised in Muslim attire, were caught by local residents in Alipurduar, West Bengal. It is worth noting that former BJP MP Arjun Singh had once said he would bring Hindus from Bihar and Jharkhand and empty Murshidabad and Malda in a single day.” (Archived link)

The handle Ansar Imran SR (Archived link) and Sivangi Choudhary (Archived link) also shared the video with the same claim.

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Fact Check

In our fact-check, we extracted different keyframes from the video, which led us to find the same video on a Facebook handle named Kausik Maiti. This video was uploaded on that handle on March 5, 2025.

We translated the Bengali caption written on the video into English, which read, “Hindu gutkha-chewers from Bihar came to Alipurduar disguised as Muslims to create trouble. Can you believe it? Gutkha-chewers are capable of anything. We want a gutkha-free Bengal.”

We found out that this video is from March 2025 and is from Alipurduar, West Bengal, where these two individuals were apprehended.

According to a report by The Hindu, while the video in question dates back to the beginning of March 2025, violence against the enacted Waqf Bill in West Bengal was first witnessed on April 8, 2025. On April 8, demonstrators protesting against the bill clashed with law enforcement in the Jangipur area of Murshidabad. Protesters blocked National Highway 12, set police vehicles on fire, and 18 police personnel sustained injuries during the clash. Railway services were also disrupted, and railway property in the Azimgarh area was vandalized by protesters, who attacked it with stones.

The Waqf Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on April 2, 2025, and in the Rajya Sabha on April 3, 2025. The bill was debated for 12 hours in both houses. After being passed, it received approval from President Droupadi Murmu on April 5, following which it became a law.

The enactment of this bill triggered a series of protests in West Bengal, particularly in Murshidabad, which escalated into severe violence. The video that is currently going viral dates back to early March 2025, whereas the protests and violence against the Waqf Bill only began after it was passed in April 2025. According to the police, a total of 210 people have been arrested so far in connection with the violence. These disturbances have led to the displacement of around hundreds of residents, who have taken refuge in the neighboring Malda district.

In conclusion, the video showing two individuals dressed in Muslim attire being apprehended by local residents is from March 05, 2025. This video is being linked to the recent violence that occurred in Murshidabad, which was triggered after the Waqf Bill was passed. However, based on the facts we found that the video is from Alipurduar and predates at least a month before the unrest.

Claim	Two men, identified as Hindus from Bihar, were apprehended by local residents in Murshidabad. They were disguised as Muslims and accused of entering the state with the intent to incite unrest.
Claimed by	Sagarika Ghose, The Muslim, Ansar Imran SR and others.
Fact check	The video of two individuals in Muslim attire being apprehended is from early March 2025 and was filmed in Alipurduar. It is now being falsely linked to the Murshidabad violence, which began after the Waqf Bill was passed.

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