The video of a 2018 clash between two factions of Tabligh Jamaat in Tongi is being circulated in India as part of the violence in Delhi.
Academician and women’s rights activist Madhu Purnima Kishwar on Tuesday (Mar 4), tweeted a video of men engaged in violence, in a reference to the communal riots in the Indian capital that reportedly claimed 47 lives.
“Thanks to camera equipped phones in every second hand and thanks to CCTVs all over the city, we now have means to know the anatomy of riots as they happen,” she wrote in the post.
However, the Times of India fact check has found the video to be cropped from a clip of a violence that took place in Gazipur’s Tongi on Dec 1, 2018.
Kishwar, who has over 2 million followers on Twitter is the chair professor in the Indian Council of Social Science Research and the founder of the 1979 women’s journal ‘Manushi.’
This is not the first time Kishwar has been called out for circulating fake news and neither is this the first time the video went viral in India.
In January 2019, it went viral in WhatsApp as a picturing of Islamic terrorism in West Bengal.
Meanwhile, in June 2019, Kishwar tweeted a photo, which falsely showed journalist Rana Ayyub advocating for the human rights of child rapists.
Back in 2018, Jammu and Kashmir Police were shocked to see news of the suspension of the police officer who killed militant commander Burhan Wani in Kashmir, tweeted by Kishwar.