{"id":14504,"date":"2018-06-14T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T10:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=14504"},"modified":"2018-07-09T18:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:52:15","slug":"viral-video-of-staged-kidnapping-now-circulates-with-child-abduction-rumour-in-kutch-gujarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/viral-video-of-staged-kidnapping-now-circulates-with-child-abduction-rumour-in-kutch-gujarat\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral video of staged kidnapping now circulates with child abduction rumour in Kutch, Gujarat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u0a95\u0a9a\u0acd\u0a9b \u0aaa\u0acb\u0ab2\u0ac0\u0ab8\u0ac7 \u0a9c\u0abe\u0ab9\u0ac7\u0ab0\u0aa8\u0abe\u0aae\u0ac1 \u0aac\u0ab9\u0abe\u0ab0 \u0aaa\u0abe\u0aa1\u0aaf\u0ac1\u0a82 \u0a9b\u0ac7&#8230; \u0ab9\u0abe\u0ab2\u0aa8\u0ac0 \u0aa4\u0abe\u0ab0\u0ac0\u0a96 \u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0a9c\u0ac7 \u0aac\u0abe\u0ab3\u0a95\u0acb \u0a89\u0aaa\u0abe\u0aa1\u0ab5\u0abe\u0aa8\u0ac1\u0a82 \u0aac\u0aa8\u0abe\u0ab5 \u0aac\u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0a8f \u0ab9\u0a95\u0ac0\u0a95\u0aa4\u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0aac\u0ab9\u0ac1 \u0aa6\u0ac1\u0a83\u0a96\u0aa6 \u0ab5\u0ab8\u0acd\u0aa4\u0ac1 \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0ab9\u0aae\u0aa3\u0abe\u0a82 \u0a95\u0a9a\u0acd\u0a9b\u0aa8\u0ac0 \u0a85\u0a82\u0aa6\u0ab0 \u0a85\u0aa2\u0ac0\u0ab8\u0acb \u0aa5\u0ac0 \u0aa4\u0acd\u0ab0\u0aa3\u0ab8\u0acb \u0ab2\u0acb\u0a95\u0acb (\u0aac\u0abe\u0ab3\u0a95\u0acb \u0a89\u0aaa\u0abe\u0ab3\u0ab5\u0abe \u0aa8\u0ac0 \u0a97\u0ac7\u0a82\u0a97) \u0a95\u0a9a\u0acd\u0a9b\u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0a86\u0ab5\u0ac0 \u0a97\u0aaf\u0abe \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0a86 \u0aac\u0aa7\u0abe \u0ab2\u0acb\u0a95\u0acb \u0aac\u0ab9\u0abe\u0ab0 \u0aa8\u0abe \u0a9b\u0ac7. \u0aa4\u0acb \u0a85\u0aae\u0abe\u0ab0\u0ac0 \u0ab8\u0acc\u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0a85\u0aaa\u0ac0\u0ab2 \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0a95\u0ac7 \u0aa4\u0aae\u0abe\u0ab0\u0abe \u0aac\u0abe\u0ab3\u0a95\u0acb\u0aa8\u0acb \u0a96\u0abe\u0ab8 \u0aa7\u0acd\u0aaf\u0abe\u0aa8 \u0ab0\u0abe\u0a96\u0acb \u0a96\u0abe\u0ab8 \u0a95\u0ab0\u0ac0\u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0ab0\u0abe\u0aa4 \u0aa8\u0abe \u0ab8\u0aae\u0aaf\u0ac7 \u0aac\u0abe\u0ab3\u0a95\u0acb \u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0a8f\u0a95\u0ab2\u0abe \u0aa8\u0abe \u0aae\u0ac2\u0a95\u0acb \u0a85\u0aae\u0abe\u0ab0\u0ac0 \u0a86 \u0ab2\u0acb\u0a95\u0acb \u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0aaa\u0a95\u0aa1\u0ab5\u0abe\u0aa8\u0ac0 \u0a95\u0acb\u0ab6\u0abf\u0ab6 \u0a9a\u0abe\u0ab2\u0ac1 \u0a9b\u0ac7. (Kutch Police has issued a notification. Till date, whichever incidents of child abduction have happened are regretful. Now, a gang of 250 to 300 people from outside has entered Kutch. So our appeal to everyone is that take care of your children and especially during the night don&#8217;t leave them alone, we are trying to find them out -translated)<\/em>. A WhatsApp message is being circulated in Gujarat to &#8216;spread awareness&#8217; about an alleged gang of 250 to 300 &#8216;outsiders&#8217; who are planning to abduct children. It further states that parents shouldn&#8217;t leave their\u00a0children alone, and that efforts are on to nab this gang.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14506\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/2018-06-13-15_08_07-11-WhatsApp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1361\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/2018-06-13-15_08_07-11-WhatsApp.png 1361w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/2018-06-13-15_08_07-11-WhatsApp-300x87.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/2018-06-13-15_08_07-11-WhatsApp-768x223.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/2018-06-13-15_08_07-11-WhatsApp-1024x298.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/2018-06-13-15_08_07-11-WhatsApp-696x203.png 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/2018-06-13-15_08_07-11-WhatsApp-1068x311.png 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1361px) 100vw, 1361px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WhatsApp Video 2018-06-13 at 2.55.22 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/275024200?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The message has also been shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/top\/?q=%E0%AA%B9%E0%AA%AE%E0%AA%A3%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%82%20%E0%AA%95%E0%AA%9A%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%9B%E0%AA%A8%E0%AB%80%20%E0%AA%85%E0%AA%82%E0%AA%A6%E0%AA%B0%20%E0%AA%85%E0%AA%A2%E0%AB%80%E0%AA%B8%E0%AB%8B%20%E0%AA%A5%E0%AB%80%20%E0%AA%A4%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%A3%E0%AA%B8%E0%AB%8B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multiple Facebook accounts <\/a>with similar text. A similar yet different version claims that this gang has been arrested. A Facebook account has also shared the same post quoting a local news website <a href=\"http:\/\/kutchcarenews.com\/news\/?p=5115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Kutch Care News<\/em><\/a>. In a Google image search, we found that the images attached to the post showing the people supposedly behind the act are unrelated to each other and are much older.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=243630029524127&amp;id=100016313954950\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=243630029524127&amp;id=100016313954950\"><p>\u0a95\u0a9a\u0acd\u0a9b \u0aaa\u0acb\u0ab2\u0ac0\u0ab8\u0ac7 \u0a9c\u0abe\u0ab9\u0ac7\u0ab0\u0aa8\u0abe\u0aae\u0ac1 \u0aac\u0ab9\u0abe\u0ab0 \u0aaa\u0abe\u0aa1\u0aaf\u0ac1\u0a82 \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0ab9\u0abe\u0ab2\u0aa8\u0ac0 \u0aa4\u0abe\u0ab0\u0ac0\u0a96\u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0a9c\u0ac7 \u0a9b\u0acb\u0a95\u0ab0\u0acb \u0a89\u0aaa\u0abe\u0aa1\u0ab5\u0abe\u0aa8\u0ac1\u0a82 \u0aac\u0aa8\u0abe\u0ab5 \u0aac\u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0a8f \u0ab9\u0a95\u0ac0\u0a95\u0aa4\u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0aac\u0ab9\u0ac1 \u0aa6\u0ac1\u0a83\u0a96\u0aa6 \u0ab5\u0ab8\u0acd\u0aa4\u0ac1 \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0ab9\u0aae\u0aa3\u0abe\u0a82&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Vasudev-Acharya\/100016313954950\">Vasudev Acharya<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=243630029524127&amp;id=100016313954950\">Tuesday, 12 June 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>A local news website <em>Kutch Seva<\/em> published article conveyed the same message which was viewed more than 350 times.\u00a0In a conversation with Alt News, Hitesh Soni, owner\u00a0of\u00a0<em>Kutch Care News<\/em>\u00a0acknowledged that the website had reported a rumour said, <em>&#8220;The Message was forwarded on one of our WhatsApp groups but now, we are issuing a rebuttal on it as it was a baseless claim based on public sentiment.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alt News contacted the office of District Superintendent of Police, Kutch who informed us that such rumors about child abduction are rampant in the district.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Origin of the Video<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Alt News broke the video into individual frames using the InVid software for videos, and reverse searched the image via Google. A video demonstration of the fact-check can be seen below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Clipped version of Educational video on child kidnapping used for rumour mongering\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/273501676?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1290\" height=\"725\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alt News found that this is an old video from 2016 made for awareness purposes by an organization named Roshni Helpline. The video ends with the text:<em>\u00a0\u201cEvery year, over 3000 children go missing in Karachi, Pakistan. Keep an eye on your child.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The abduction was staged to educate people about rampant child abduction in Karachi. The original video is posted below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Live Child Kidnapping CCTV Footage   Karachi Pakistan\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q5qdwyZJqzs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video has been viral in different states in the past month. Earlier, the claim was debunked in May 2018 when <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewsminute.com\/article\/child-kidnapping-video-spreading-panic-tamil-nadu-actually-pakistan-81160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The News Minute<\/a><\/em> reported that this video is circulating in Tamil Nadu. On June 5, the video<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/dangerous-child-abduction-rumour-frenzy-continues-now-spreads-to-maharashtra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> re-entered the fake news ecosystem<\/a> of Maharashtra. Now, this video is being utilized to back a hoax that a gang of abductors has arrived in Kutch district of Gujarat which has led to a fear psychosis among the residents. Despite the claim being debunked repeatedly, it continues to circulate on social media with alarming regularity and new rumours each time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0a95\u0a9a\u0acd\u0a9b \u0aaa\u0acb\u0ab2\u0ac0\u0ab8\u0ac7 \u0a9c\u0abe\u0ab9\u0ac7\u0ab0\u0aa8\u0abe\u0aae\u0ac1 \u0aac\u0ab9\u0abe\u0ab0 \u0aaa\u0abe\u0aa1\u0aaf\u0ac1\u0a82 \u0a9b\u0ac7&#8230; \u0ab9\u0abe\u0ab2\u0aa8\u0ac0 \u0aa4\u0abe\u0ab0\u0ac0\u0a96 \u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0a9c\u0ac7 \u0aac\u0abe\u0ab3\u0a95\u0acb \u0a89\u0aaa\u0abe\u0aa1\u0ab5\u0abe\u0aa8\u0ac1\u0a82 \u0aac\u0aa8\u0abe\u0ab5 \u0aac\u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0a8f \u0ab9\u0a95\u0ac0\u0a95\u0aa4\u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0aac\u0ab9\u0ac1 \u0aa6\u0ac1\u0a83\u0a96\u0aa6 \u0ab5\u0ab8\u0acd\u0aa4\u0ac1 \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0ab9\u0aae\u0aa3\u0abe\u0a82 \u0a95\u0a9a\u0acd\u0a9b\u0aa8\u0ac0 \u0a85\u0a82\u0aa6\u0ab0 \u0a85\u0aa2\u0ac0\u0ab8\u0acb \u0aa5\u0ac0 \u0aa4\u0acd\u0ab0\u0aa3\u0ab8\u0acb \u0ab2\u0acb\u0a95\u0acb (\u0aac\u0abe\u0ab3\u0a95\u0acb \u0a89\u0aaa\u0abe\u0ab3\u0ab5\u0abe \u0aa8\u0ac0 \u0a97\u0ac7\u0a82\u0a97) \u0a95\u0a9a\u0acd\u0a9b\u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0a86\u0ab5\u0ac0 \u0a97\u0aaf\u0abe \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0a86 \u0aac\u0aa7\u0abe \u0ab2\u0acb\u0a95\u0acb \u0aac\u0ab9\u0abe\u0ab0 \u0aa8\u0abe \u0a9b\u0ac7. \u0aa4\u0acb \u0a85\u0aae\u0abe\u0ab0\u0ac0 \u0ab8\u0acc\u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0a85\u0aaa\u0ac0\u0ab2 \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0a95\u0ac7 \u0aa4\u0aae\u0abe\u0ab0\u0abe \u0aac\u0abe\u0ab3\u0a95\u0acb\u0aa8\u0acb \u0a96\u0abe\u0ab8 \u0aa7\u0acd\u0aaf\u0abe\u0aa8 \u0ab0\u0abe\u0a96\u0acb \u0a96\u0abe\u0ab8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":14588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-14504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","fact_checks_claim_type-social-media-claims","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/kutchabductionFI.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14589,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504\/revisions\/14589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14504"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=14504"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}