The X user, going by the handle name Md. Fujail Ahmed (Archived link), who is the Vice Chairman of Assam Pradesh Kisan Congress and the former Media Coordinator according to his bio, shared a disturbing video of men in police uniforms mercilessly lathicharging women. While tweeting the video, Mohammad Ahmed wrote, “Male officers of MP Police are flouting the law, displaying their power over unarmed women, lathi-charging women, and expressing their impotence. This is also an incident in Madhya Pradesh. The BJ Party’s praise of women’s power”.
Besides, journalist Ashok Kumar Pandey (Archived link) who has 213.7k followers and the other handle going by the username @/bhagalsanju (Archived link) shared the same video and claimed that the incident is from Madhya Pradesh.
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Fact Check
At the beginning of our research, Only Fact extracted individual keyframes from the video and ran a Google reverse image search. Through reverse image search, we found the video uploaded by WU Live on its YouTube channel. Here we found that the video was uploaded four years ago i.e. on September 25, 2019.
Apart from this, when we read the description of the video, we came to know that the claim made by Fujail Ahmed is false and misleading because the video is not from Madhya Pradesh but from Ranchi, Jharkhand. According to the description, “Anganwadi women workers had surrounded the CM residence in Ranchi. These people were protesting peacefully with nine demands, including making it permanent. The protest was peaceful, but then a female activist became furious. To make them understand, the top police officer himself started beating them with sticks. Dozens of women were injured in the brutal police lathicharge, while a worker’s hand was broken due to the police lathicharge.
Furthermore, to delve deeper into the matter and know the complete picture behind the protests, we conducted relevant keyword searches like “Anganwadi workers protest outside CM residence in Ranchi” and viewed multiple media reports. According to a Go News India report published four years ago, Anganwadi workers were protesting for the 40 days and were on a hunger strike for 12 days and the protest was organized near the Raj Bhavan in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
The workers had protested, asking that Anganwadi workers be recognized as government employees and paid Rs 18,000 per month, while assistants be paid Rs 9,000 per month. They demanded that Mini Anganwadi employees be treated equally, that Anganwadi workers receive social security benefits, that the retirement age be raised to 65 years, and that workers receive retirement payments of Rs 5 lakh and helpers receive payouts of Rs 3 lakh.
Hence, according to the aforementioned facts and information, the claim that a video showing police officials lathicharging Anganwadi workers is from the state of Madhya Pradesh is false. It is also worth mentioning that the video is four years old, from Ranchi, Jharkhand, and is now being shared on social media as the Madhya Pradesh election approaches.
| Claim | A video of police officials lathicharging women is from Madhya Pradesh |
| Claimed by | Fujail Ahmed, Ashok Kumar Pandey and @/bhagalsanju |
| Fact Check | False |
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