{"id":103633,"date":"2021-09-25T14:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T08:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=103633"},"modified":"2021-09-25T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T08:52:48","slug":"video-from-brazil-shared-against-backdrop-of-minor-girls-rape-in-saidabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-from-brazil-shared-against-backdrop-of-minor-girls-rape-in-saidabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Video from Brazil shared against backdrop of minor girl&#8217;s rape in Saidabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Disclaimer: Viral videos have not been uploaded in this report due to their gory and disturbing nature.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two videos &#8211; one that shows a man shot to death and another where a mob hacks a man to death &#8211; are widely circulating on WhatsApp. It has been claimed that the men were rapists and were &#8216;punished&#8217; for their crimes. Pictures of a minor girl have been superimposed on the videos.<\/p>\n<p>Alt News has received several requests to fact-check this claim on our WhatsApp helpline number (+91 76000 11160).<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-103633 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-from-brazil-shared-against-backdrop-of-minor-girls-rape-in-saidabad\/wa-gun\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/wa-gun.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/wa-gun.jpg 695w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/wa-gun-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-from-brazil-shared-against-backdrop-of-minor-girls-rape-in-saidabad\/axe\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"746\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/axe.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/axe.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/axe-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4><strong>Fact-check<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>All three elements in the viral message are unrelated to each other. We will first start with the pictures of the minor girl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saidabad rape case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alt News performed a reverse image search and found the girl&#8217;s images on social media. As per the posts, she was a victim of a recent rape case in Hyderabad. This was also corroborated by local journalists from Hyderabad.<\/p>\n<p>On September 9, a minor girl was reportedly raped at her neighbour&#8217;s house in Hyderabad&#8217;s Saidabad area. Raju (30) was the main suspect for the police. The post-mortem report revealed that the six-year-old was raped and strangled to death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/telangana\/hyderabad-girl-rape-and-murder-suspect-raju-found-dead-on-railway-track\/article36489143.ece\">The Hindu<\/a> reported that a massive manhunt was launched by the Telangana police to nab the only suspect in the case. The search ended on September 16 when Raju&#8217;s body was found on the railway tracks between Station Ghanpur and Naskhal railway stations in the Jangoan district of Telangana.<\/p>\n<p>A police official told BBC Telugu that Pallakonda Raju&#8217;s death was &#8220;a clear case of suicide&#8221;. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-58592995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>, the police&#8217;s version has been questioned and cops were accused of staging a suicide. Two days before Raju&#8217;s body was found, Telangana Labour Minister Malla Reddy boasted that &#8220;we will catch the rapist and murderer, and encounter him&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video 1: Man being shot dead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This 12-second video shows a man being shot multiple times. On the bottom left, a text in Hindi says, &#8220;Mend your ways or the same will happen to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103634 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Gunshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Gunshot.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Gunshot-172x300.jpg 172w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Gunshot-585x1024.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News took a screenshot of the video, performed a reverse image search and found one of the frames of the video on Brazilian websites <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rondonianews.com\/2021\/04\/24\/traficantes-metralham-cabeca-de-homem-que-traiu-a-faccao-e-filmam-tudo\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=traficantes-metralham-cabeca-de-homem-que-traiu-a-faccao-e-filmam-tudo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rond\u00f4nia News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/jhnoticias.com.br\/policia\/traficantes-metralham-cabeca-de-homem-que-traiu-a-faccao-e-filmam-tudo-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JH Noticias<\/a>. According to reports, the video shows a man being executed by drug dealers. We also found that the video was uploaded on a website that hosts user-generated gore videos with the caption &#8216;Brazilian man shot to death point-blank&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103650 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-20-at-18.26.38-1024x611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-20-at-18.26.38-1024x611.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-20-at-18.26.38-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-20-at-18.26.38-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-20-at-18.26.38-1536x916.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-20-at-18.26.38-2048x1221.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Further, on performing a keyword search we located the video uploaded by another <a href=\"https:\/\/terramtdigital.com.br\/policia\/x9-e-sal-traficantes-metralham-cabeca-de-homem-que-traiu-a-faccao-e-filmam-tudo-cenas-fortissimas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazillian website<\/a>. The article from April said that the police is investigating the matter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103885 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-24-at-20.31.23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2434\" height=\"1628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-24-at-20.31.23.jpg 2434w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-24-at-20.31.23-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-24-at-20.31.23-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-24-at-20.31.23-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-24-at-20.31.23-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-24-at-20.31.23-2048x1370.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2434px) 100vw, 2434px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video 2: Man being hacked with an axe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103641 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/axe-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/axe-.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/axe--195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News had verified this video in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-of-murder-in-karnataka-shared-as-rajasthan-false-communal-spin-added\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August<\/a> when it was shared with the false claim that a Hindu man was murdered by Muslims in Rajasthan&#8217;s Malpur.<\/p>\n<p>The video is from Karnataka and shows a personal tiff between two rival gangs. Alt News spoke with SP Hanumanth Rai at Karnataka-based town Haveri. He did not say that the motive behind the mob attack was punishment for rape. As per Goa-based news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldgoa.in\/Goa\/4-arrested-in-Anwar-killing\/178622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herald<\/a>, the video shows the murder of notorious criminal Anwar Shaikh alias \u2018Tiger\u2019 at Karatagi Cross, Savanur, Karnataka on August 8.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, in the backdrop of the Saidabad rape and murder case and the controversial circumstances surrounding the death of the only suspect, two unrelated videos were linked to the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Disclaimer: Viral videos have not been uploaded in this report due to their gory and disturbing nature.] Two videos &#8211; one that shows a man shot to death and another where a mob hacks a man to death &#8211; are widely circulating on WhatsApp. It has been claimed that the men were rapists and were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":103649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[682],"class_list":["post-103633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/FI-8.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103633"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103916,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103633\/revisions\/103916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103633"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=103633"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=103633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}