A CCTV footage of a man sitting inside his car mercilessly thrashed by a group of men is being shared on Facebook with the claim that a Dalit IAS officer was murdered by RSS activists in Nagpur. The Malayalam caption also adds that they raped his 16-year-old daughter in the car.
നാഗപ്പൂരിൽ RSS പ്രവർത്തകർ ദളിത് IAS ഓഫീസറെ പരസ്യമായി വെട്ടിയും കുത്തിയും കൊലപ്പെടുത്തുന്നു . അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ 16 വയസ്സുകാരി മകളെ കാറിൽ കൂട്ടാബലാത്സംഗം ചെയ്യുന്ന ഭീകര കാഴ്ചകൾ ഇതുപോലെ കേരളമാക്കി തീർക്കാനാണ് ലീഗ് കോൺഗ്രസ്സ് ബീജെപി ശക്യം രൂപീകരിക്കുന്നത് സുഹൃത്തുക്കളെ ഒരു വോട്ടുപോലും ഈ കള്ളനാറികൾക്ക് ഇട്ട് പോകരുത് .. 😡😡😡😡😬
Posted by Sunyd Hassan on Tuesday, September 29, 2020
This video is massively circulating on Facebook.
Fact-check
Alt News performed a Google search with simple keywords ‘Nagpur murder CCTV’ and found several reports on the incident.
According to The Indian Express, “The victim has been identified as Balya Belekar, who has a lengthy criminal record. According to sources, Belekar used to run a gambling den and was killed to avenge the death of a man he had murdered in 2001.”
Chetan Hazare, Rajat Tambe, Aasim Ludelkar, Bharat Pandit, Chintu Nagachari, Aakash Khare, and Aniket Manthapurvar were arrested by the police. There is no mention of rape in the reports.
Maharashtra: Nagpur Crime Branch arrests four accused of the murder of a suspected gambling den kingpin, Kishor Binekar. He was allegedly stabbed to death by five assailants at a petrol pump in Nagpur yesterday. pic.twitter.com/Y7X9e96ADl
— ANI (@ANI) September 27, 2020
The allegation that RSS members murdered a Dalit IAS officer and raped his minor daughter are false.
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