{"id":122782,"date":"2022-07-16T16:44:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T11:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=122782"},"modified":"2022-07-16T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T11:14:39","slug":"staged-child-kidnapping-video-viral-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/staged-child-kidnapping-video-viral-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Staged child kidnapping video viral yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 8-minute-long video clip that purportedly shows a kidnapping attempt is viral on social media. In the video, we see a woman getting out of an auto-rickshaw with a child. As she is speaking to the auto driver, another woman standing in the vicinity picks up the child and flees.
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Meanwhile, two men recorded this act on their phones. They <\/span>inform the child’s mother and head in the direction of the alleged kidnapper. The mother, along with those who had filmed the act, get into a physical altercation with the alleged kidnapper. During this scuffle, one of the men slaps the alleged kidnapper several times. In the end, she confesses and apologises.<\/span><\/p>\n

Social media users have shared the video and claimed the mother was deaf and dumb. Hence she did not notice when her child got kidnapped. A Facebook user posted this video with the same claim. (<\/span>Archived link<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Posted by Aditya Mishra<\/a> on Saturday, June 4, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Another user<\/span><\/a> also amplified the video on Facebook.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/b><\/h4>\n

A disclaimer appears at the 0:16-mark of the viral video. It states that the video “should be considered for entertainment purposes only”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Upon further investigation, we found the same video posted<\/a> on June 7 by a Facebook page called ‘Ankur Jatuskaran’. Ankur Jatuskaran is a video creator<\/a> who often makes prank videos and shares them on his <\/span>YouTube channel<\/span><\/a> and Facebook page.<\/span><\/p>\n

We examined the Facebook page closely and discovered that it has previously posted several such scripted videos (<\/span>link 1<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>link 2<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>link 3<\/span><\/a>). Apart from this, we noticed that the man seen in the viral clip is Ankur himself. He features as an actor in most of the videos.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To sum it up, the viral video that shows child kidnapping is actually scripted. In the past, Alt News has fact-checked multiple such videos<\/a> which are actually dramatised or made for awareness. However, because the disclaimers are not being featured properly, they are often mistakenly shared as real incidents.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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