{"id":129065,"date":"2022-09-17T14:57:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T09:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=129065"},"modified":"2023-06-20T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T11:57:35","slug":"scripted-video-of-cleric-drugging-and-molesting-woman-viral-with-communal-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/scripted-video-of-cleric-drugging-and-molesting-woman-viral-with-communal-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Scripted video of ‘cleric’ drugging and molesting woman viral with communal spin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video<\/a> of a cleric molesting a woman in the garb of performing a ritual has been shared widely on social media. The video captures an elderly man, allegedly a cleric, on camera drugging the woman and molesting her while she is unconscious. Later in the video, the woman claims to have been referred to the cleric by a neighbour for treatment of infertility. The men behind the camera whisper their concern over the elderly man’s actions before confronting him.<\/p>\n

A Twitter user named CHETAN (@VrindavanBake<\/a>) has shared the video with a caption in Hindi that can be translated to: “Friends, what treatment is he doing! Shame on you Maulavis! You are doing such dirty work with someone’s sister and daughter. Don’t know how people take their sisters and daughters to these hypocrites. Shame on you \ud83d\ude21\ud83d\ude21\ud83d\ude21” His tweet has been viewed over 6.5 lakh times and retweeted 2,500 times.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 CHETAN (@VrindavanBake) June 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Same Video was Viral in 2022 as well<\/h4>\n

The video was posted by verified Twitter handles of news portals, politicians and journalists in 2022. BJP member and lawyer @ippatel<\/span><\/a>, who has a history<\/a> of putting out misinformation, shared the video. The tweet, translated to English reads, “People visit shrines to seek recourse from ailments. Watch what happens there”.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Prashant Umrao (@ippatel) September 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The video has been shared by @Santosh_Stv<\/span><\/a> of Sudarshan News with a similar caption, suggesting that Muslim places of worship were dubious places.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Santosh Chauhan Sudarshan News (@Santosh_Stv) September 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The same video was pinned on Twitter by Anchal Yadhav<\/a>, a senior correspondent at <\/span>@HindiKhabar.<\/a> The caption in Hindi translated to English read, “Look at how women seeking medical attention at shrines and mosques are treated by men of God…”<\/span><\/p>\n

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User Arun Pudur<\/a>, who has over 89,000 followers on Twitter, shared the video claiming it was an expos\u00e9 by ‘Hindu activists’.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Khuda ka Baanda\u2019 Mualana drugs a Hindu woman to \u2018treat\u2019 her. He was caught red-handed by Hindu activists.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t wait for @aroonpurie<\/a>\u2019s media to write \u201cTantrik attacked by Hindutva goons while treating a woman\u201d. pic.twitter.com\/5um6eV4pc7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Arun Pudur \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@arunpudur) September 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

User @YatiBaba2<\/a> shared the video (archive link<\/a>) voicing concerns over the plight of Hindu women who seek help from Muslim clerics. He laments that Hindus have abandoned their 33 crore deities and gone to ‘jihadis’. Finally, he calls upon Hindus to wake up.
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Fact Check<\/h4>\n

A keyword<\/a> search on Facebook led to a\u00a0 public group<\/a> named after BJP leader and leader of the opposition in\u00a0 West Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari. The group shared an 11:52-minute-long video<\/a> of the same incident. Translated to English, the caption reads “A Maulana drugs women who go to him seeking counsel over fertility issues, drags them into a room and rapes them. Watch the complete report”. At 11.50 minutes, the video ends with the explicit disclaimer,\u00a0 “Everything in this video is imaginary. Imaginary because the reality is too bitter to be told or shown. Events shown in this are not real compared to what has been happening in countries like ours”. This disclaimer, however, has been conveniently ignored in the write-up leading to the post.<\/p>\n

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Most of the users like journalist Anchal Yadhav<\/a>, @Santosh_Stv, <\/span><\/a>and news channels like News Times 24<\/a>, and Hindustan Live News<\/a> (archive link<\/a>) shared the shorter version of the clip without the disclaimer and presented it across social media as a news report.<\/p>\n

If we look at the video in itself, given the distance from where it is being shot, it seems highly unlikely that the cleric was unaware of people recording him or catching him in the act. There is no way to confirm from the video if the person was indeed a Muslim or the woman a Hindu or if the room is inside a mosque or not.<\/p>\n

The man playing a cleric in the widely-shared video has played various roles in other scripted videos as well. The running theme of two such videos on Youtube (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>) which features the same man is that an elderly man marries a teenager and is later ‘called out’ by socially responsible men. One of the videos<\/a> comes with a disclaimer that it is meant for purposes of entertainment alone. We came across similar prank videos on Youtube<\/a> and on the Facebook page AbcPrank<\/a> starring the same actor playing a cleric. A fact-checking report on BOOM<\/a> corroborates some of our findings.<\/p>\n