After Manohar Dhakad’s arrest for obscenity on highway, unrelated video of woman in hijab goes viral

After the arrest of Manohar Lal Dhakad, who was caught on camera indulging in sexual activities on the Delhi-Mumbai expressway, a clip of a woman in a hijab has gone viral. In the 17-second long video, full of expletives, the woman tells a man holding a mic, “Mera jism, meri marzi” (my body, my choice).

Dhakad, who has links to the BJP and is national secretary of the Dhakad Mahasabha registered in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain, was arrested by the state’s Mandsaur Police on May 25, 2025. The viral video of Dhakad in a compromising position with a woman on a public highway was captured on May 13; soon after it went viral, several cases were registered against him and the woman at Bhanpura police station. 

Those sharing the video of the hijab-clad woman on social media after his arrest claimed that she was the one seen in the CCTV footage with Dhakad that night and identified her as Lubna Qureshi.

X user Jitendra Pratap Singh (@jpsin1), who counts Prime Minister Narendra Modi among his followers, shared the clip of the woman on May 27 and quipped, “If the hero of the film is arrested, why is the heroine released?” (Archive)

धाकड़ के हाईवे की फिल्म की हीरोइन लुबना कुरैशी

ये कह रही है मेरा जिस्म मेरी मर्जी चाहे मैं हाईवे पर या ओयो में

तुम कौन होते हो मुझे रोकने वाले

पुलिस को इसको भी अश्लीलता फैलाने की जुर्म में गिरफ्तार करना चाहिए था

फिल्म के हीरो को गिरफ्तार कर लिया तो हीरोइन को क्यों छोड़… pic.twitter.com/5BHTb71VjV

— 🇮🇳Jitendra pratap singh🇮🇳 (@jpsin1) May 27, 2025

At the time of writing this, the post had garnered 550,000 views.

X user Ocean Jain (@ocjain4) also shared the video, referring to the woman as “highway heroine”. (Archive)

मेरा जिस्म मेरी मर्जी, मै धन्दा करू तुम्हें क्या ?

लुबना कुरेशी हाइवे फिल्म की हीरोइन 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/ymosPZeQ3z

— Ocean Jain (@ocjain4) May 27, 2025

At the time of writing this, the user’s post had racked up over 800,000 views.

Similary, another X user, Deepak Sharma (@SonOfBharat7), also shared the video, claiming ‘Lubna Qureshi’, Dhakad’s partner on the highway that night, was publicly acknowledging what she did. The user also snuck in a snide communal remark: “This hijab clad woman is very open-minded”. (Archive)

Readers should note that Ocean Jain, Jitendra Pratap Singh, and Deepak Sharma are notorious for amplifying false and misleading information. Alt News has fact checked posts by the three users several times in the past. 

Besides these three, other social media users also shared the video and amplified the claims.

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Fact Check

First, we checked news reports on the Dhakad case, but nowhere was the religious identity of the woman divulged. A Times of India report said that the authorities were yet to identify the woman seen in the video. It added that the police, despite interrogating Dhakad for a few hours, were unable to get any details on who he was with that night. 

We then broke down the video of the hijab-clad woman into key frames and ran a reverse image search. This led us to a TikTok account @ghdvcvjfe5u, which uploaded three similar videos of the woman’s interaction on May 21, 2025.

The TikTok videos can be seen below.

We tried more reverse image searches from key frames in these videos and landed on a longer video of the same incident on YouTube uploaded on June 23, 2023—nearly two years before the expressway incident. At the 3:20-minute mark of the seven-minute video, the viral bit appears:

The channel Urdu Viral, which had uploaded this, captioned the video ‘Positive Work By Anchor For Pakistan’. The channel had uploaded several other videos from different parts of Pakistan.

Thus, the clip of the hijab-clad woman is from Pakistan and is at least two years before the expressway incident; therefore, it has no links to the Manohar Dhakad case. The claims made by social media users that the woman in the video is the same one seen in the viral CCTV clip having sex with Dhakad in the middle of the highway are false and misleading.

(Note: The story has been updated with Urdu Viral’s video.)