“Recent video of police brutally thrashing Kanwariyas in West Bengal”
What FACTLY found
The video shared in the post shows one-year-old incident visuals of West Bengal Police lathi-charging lord Shiva devotees at the Bhootnath temple in Kolkata. The Kolkata police thrashed lord Shiva devotees for violating COVID-19 restrictions imposed by the West Bengal government. The video shared in the post is old and had nothing to do with the recent Kanwar Yatra
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In short
This claim spread on social media. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 29 July 2022. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
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