{"id":17740,"date":"2018-08-10T18:21:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=17740"},"modified":"2018-08-10T18:27:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:57:13","slug":"old-video-of-violence-by-kanwariyas-shared-on-social-media-as-recent-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-of-violence-by-kanwariyas-shared-on-social-media-as-recent-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video of violence by Kanwariyas shared on social media as recent incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the recent violence<\/a> in New Delhi by Kanwariyas (Lord Shiva devotees), a video is circulating widely on social media. This video shows a mob of saffron-clad men indulging in violence and vandalism, and clashing with the police. Social media users who have shared it have claimed that this is another video of violence by Kanwariyas, and that the incident took place at Modinagar in Delhi.<\/p>\n

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Journalist Ajit Anjum, whose tweet has been posted above, later deleted it and clarified <\/a>that the video is not a recent one, but stopped short of an apology. Also among those who shared it is Manak Gupta, who is an anchor with News24<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Gupta has however\u00a0deleted his tweet\u00a0<\/a>and apologised for the same.<\/p>\n

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Friends, I am told the video I posted earlier was an old video. Deleted. Apologies \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n

\u2014 Manak Gupta (@manakgupta) August 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The video has been shared and retweeted widely<\/a> on Twitter. The earliest instance<\/a> of this video being tweeted that Alt News could find was by a user @Dilsedesh <\/em>which was posted on August 9, 2018. The same video has also been posted on Facebook<\/a>. In one instance, it has been shared with the claim that the hooligans seen in the video are Kashmiris who are attacking Indian security personnel. This video, posted by an individual user has been viewed over 78,000 times.<\/p>\n

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Posted by Saif Ali UsmanPuriya<\/a> on Wednesday, August 8, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Video is of 2017<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The video in question, which is being shared as a recent incident, is actually a year old. Alt News was notified by a social media user<\/a>. Anil Tiwari, founder of the website Uttarpradesh.org<\/em> pointed out to Alt News that the video is of 2017. The same video can be seen below. It was posted on July 20, 2017 and is a news report by the channel News24, <\/em>the same network that Manak Gupta works for.<\/p>\n