A video, of CCTV footage, in which a man behaves indecently with a school girl, is viral on social media. Those sharing the video claim that the person in the clip, who is seen lifting the girl’s school uniform and recording it on his phone, is Muslim and was arrested by the Assam Police after the incident. They also claimed that the man confessed to the wrongdoing during police interrogation and admitted that he intended to use the footage to blackmail the girl.
X user Jitendra Pratap Singh (@jpsin1), who has amplified communal misinformation on several occasions, shared the video with these claims. (Archive)
X user Riniti Chatterjee Pandey (@IRinitiPandey) also shared the video with claims that the accused youth is Muslim. (Archive)
X account Amitabh Chaudhary (@MithilaWaala) also posted the video calling the accused a “jihadi” for lifting a woman’s skirt and taking inappropriate photos. (Archive)
Fact Check
Alt News tried to find news reports on the incident to verify the claims. A keyword search using terms related to the video led us to an X post by Doordarshan News Shillong from May 29, 2025. The caption made it clear that the incident happened on May 21 in Shillong, Meghalaya, and the local police apprehended a man named Himan Gogoi from Assam for assaulting the school girl. In the video attached to the post, East Khasi Hills’ superintendent of police (SP) Vivek Syiem says that the incident the CCTV footage, which was viral, helped them trace the victim, who otherwise may not have reported the harassment.
A special team of East Khasi Hills police today apprehended one Himan Gogoi, a 24-yr-old man hailing from Jorhat in Assam, for allegedly sexually assaulting a school girl by lifting her apparel taking photographs through his mobile phone on May 21. pic.twitter.com/LWcYowibY8
— DD News Meghalaya (@ddnewsshillong) May 29, 2025
A Times of India report dated May 30, 2025 on the case also identifies the accused as Himan Gogoi, a 24-year-old man from Jorhat, Assam. Citing the East Khasi Hills SP, it said that a team of state police team led by a female sub-inspector travelled to Assam and took Gogoi into custody and confiscated the mobile phone he used for taking the pictures.
The name makes it clear that he is not a Muslim and that social media users amplified the incident with a false communal angle.
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