Video of Army Lathi Charging Voters on Election Day is From Bangladesh, Not India

Amid the ongoing elections in India, a video showing a street scene where armed security personnel (likely soldiers or paramilitary forces) in camouflage uniforms and helmets lathi charging civilians is being shared claiming it is from India.

Sharing the video, the handle Anees Raja wrote, “If the meaning of elections is reduced to this—that the public is suppressed by the administration’s batons, and those who raise their voices are tortured—then such elections are not democracy, but merely a sham. Elections are a festival of the people’s strength, not of fear and repression.” (Archived link)

अगर चुनाव का मतलब ही ये रह जाए कि जनता को प्रशासन के डंडों से दबाया जाए, आवाज़ उठाने वालों को प्रताड़ित किया जाए —तो ऐसे चुनाव लोकतंत्र नहीं, सिर्फ एक दिखावा बनकर रह जाते हैं।

चुनाव जनता की ताकत का पर्व है, डर और दमन का नहीं।@yadavakhilesh @samajwadiparty pic.twitter.com/XLS7TAfk21

— Anees Raja انیس راجا (@aneesrajasp) April 29, 2026

Another handle Jitendra Verma asserted, “If the meaning of elections is reduced to this—that the public is suppressed with the sticks of administration, those who raise their voices are tortured—then such elections are not democracy, but merely a sham. Elections are a festival of the people’s power, not of fear and repression.” (Archived link)

अगर चुनाव का मतलब ही ये रह जाए कि जनता को प्रशासन के डंडों से दबाया जाए, आवाज़ उठाने वालों को प्रताड़ित किया जाए —तो ऐसे चुनाव लोकतंत्र नहीं, सिर्फ एक दिखावा बनकर रह जाते हैं।

चुनाव जनता की ताकत का पर्व है, डर और दमन का नहीं।@yadavakhilesh @samajwadiparty pic.twitter.com/kHcduUergQ

— Jitendra Verma (@jeetusp) April 29, 2026

The video was also shared by (Archived link), and Sidd (Archived link).

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Fact Check

In our fact-check research, we extracted different keyframes from the video and ran a reverse image search. This led us to the same video posted on a Facebook page named Law TV on February 15. The caption, originally in Bangla, translates to, “The behavior of the army towards outside civilians was aggressive on the day of the election.”

Law TV has listed its location as Dhaka, which suggests that the incident involving the army and civilians on election day is from Bangladesh, not India.

In conclusion, the claim that the video shows Indian security personnel assaulting civilians during elections is false. The video is from Bangladesh, not India.

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