{"id":301760,"date":"2025-07-11T12:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=301760"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:52:15","slug":"video-of-hindu-woman-kneeling-at-rath-yatra-in-puri-viral-with-false-claims-that-she-was-offering-namaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-of-hindu-woman-kneeling-at-rath-yatra-in-puri-viral-with-false-claims-that-she-was-offering-namaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of Hindu woman kneeling at Rath Yatra in Puri viral with false claims that she was offering namaz"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video showing a female police volunteer pulling away a woman kneeling underneath a large wooden chariot is viral on social media with communal claims that she was offering namaz <\/em>or Islamic prayers during the annual Rath Yatra in Puri, Odisha. While the clip does not clearly show namaz <\/em>being offered,<\/em> someone in the background can be heard asking, \u201cNamaz porche naki?\u201d<\/i> (Are they offering the namaz<\/em>?)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rath Yatra or Chariot festival is a major Hindu festival in which thousands of devotees of the Hindu god Jagannath (believed to be a form of another deity, Krishna) come to Puri. In Hindu mythology, the deity travels in a chariot to visit his aunt along with his siblings and offers blessings to all on the way. The city usually witnesses a massive surge in visitors around this time. A glimpse of this scale is also visible in the viral video.<\/p>\n

Social media users claim the video shows two individuals offering namaz<\/em> under the holy chariot of Jagannath, and this is done to deliberately disrespect the religious sentiments of Hindus and malign the sanctity of the festival.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On July 2, X user BALA (<\/span>@erbmjha<\/span><\/a>) shared the footage, calling it blasphemous. They also tagged the Odisha police, demanding her arrest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Blasphemy during Rath Yatra!!<\/p>\n

Woman caught doing Namaz under the Jagannath Rath in Puri.<\/p>\n

Enough of testing the patience of Hindus. Why isn’t she arrested yet @odisha_police<\/a> ? pic.twitter.com\/oBwhP5p15u<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 BALA (@erbmjha) July 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the time of writing this, the post had over 164,000 views.\u00a0<\/span>Note that Alt News has fact-checked misinformation shared by this user<\/a> several times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The same day, on X, Sagar Kumar (@KumaarSaagar<\/a>), a journalist at Sudarshan News, a pro-Right outlet, shared the same video, suggesting that offering namaz<\/em> during a Hindu festival signalled a larger conspiracy at play.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2014 Sagar Kumar \u201cSudarshan News\u201d (@KumaarSaagar) July 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The post had over 573,000 views at the time this was written.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another X user, Sameer (<\/span>@BesuraTaansane<\/span><\/a>), also shared the video with a provocative caption that those who hate Hindus should go to their \u201cpromised land\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you hate Hindus so much why don\u2019t you just GTFOH & go to your promised land<\/p>\n

Shameless beach was caught offering \ud83e\udd32 under the Rath at the Jagannath Rath Yatra \ud83e\udd2c\ud83e\udd2c\ud83e\udd2cpic.twitter.com\/3FWer1vLgv<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sameer (@BesuraTaansane) July 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the time of writing this, the post had over 781,000 views.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Several other social media users, whom Alt News has previously called out for amplifying misinformation, also shared the video with similar claims. These include MeghUpdates<\/a> (@MeghUpdates<\/a>), Squint Neon<\/a> (@TheSquind<\/a>), Jitendra Pratap Singh<\/a> (@jpsin1<\/a>), Ocean Jain<\/a> (@ocjain4<\/a>), and Kalpana Srivastava<\/a> (@Lawyer_Kalpana<\/a>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n