

{"id":302957,"date":"2025-08-14T13:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=302957"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:07:50","slug":"false-claim-that-muslim-boy-trying-to-slit-the-throat-of-a-school-girl-with-a-knife-after-failing-in-his-attempt-to-trap-her-in-love-jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/false-claim-that-muslim-boy-trying-to-slit-the-throat-of-a-school-girl-with-a-knife-after-failing-in-his-attempt-to-trap-her-in-love-jihad\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim man held minor girl at knifepoint after failed &#8216;love jihad&#8217; attempt? No, video viral with false communal claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A video of a young man holding a schoolgirl at knifepoint as she pleads with him in Marathi was widely shared on social media with communal claims that the perpetrator, a Muslim, was threatening the girl after his attempts at enticing her into &#8216;love jihad&#8217; failed. In the video, the girl says in Marathi, \u201cI am not interested in you, let me go\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216;Love jihad&#8217; is a conspiracy theory believed by many hardliner Hindus, according to which Muslim men seduce Hindu women and coerce them to convert to Islam. Meanwhile, passers-by manage to save the girl and beat the man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">X handle \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/wfuGy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mahaveer_VJ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019, a user often found spreading communal misinformation, shared the video, calling it an incident from Maharashtra where a &#8220;jihadi&#8221; was killed while trying to slit the throat of a schoolgirl with a knife because he was unable to trap her in \u2018love jihad\u2019. The caption reads, \u201cKeep an eye on jihadi mullahs (pejorative term for Muslims). Warn your sisters and daughters.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Maharashtra incident.<\/p>\n<p>Jihadi killed while trying to slit the throat of a school girl with a knife after failing in his attempt to trap her in love jihad.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye on Jihadi Mullahs, warn your sisters and daughters!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VMI8QCPxwg\">pic.twitter.com\/VMI8QCPxwg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u092e\u0939\u093e\u0935\u0940\u0930 \u091c\u0948\u0928, \u0cae\u0cb9\u0cbe\u0cb5\u0cc0\u0cb0 \u0c9c\u0cc8\u0ca8, Mahaveer Jain (@Mahaveer_VJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mahaveer_VJ\/status\/1948644766398243048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">X user &#8216;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/5ILnj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@Akhand_Bharat_S<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216;, which has also been found spreading communal misinformation on several occasions, shared the video with similar claims. The user blamed the Congress government for introducing the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act in 2010, enabling large-scale conversions with foreign funding.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u0921\u093c\u0947 \u092a\u0948\u092e\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u092a\u0930 \u0927\u0930\u094d\u092e\u093e\u0928\u094d\u0924\u0930\u0923, \u0932\u0935 \u091c\u093f\u0939\u093e\u0926 \u0939\u094b \u0930\u0939\u093e \u0939\u0948 \u0907\u0938\u0915\u093e \u092e\u0942\u0932 \u0915\u093e\u0930\u0923 \u0939\u0948<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 \u0935\u093f\u0926\u0947\u0936\u0940 \u092b\u0902\u0921\u093f\u0902\u0917<\/p>\n<p>\u0907\u0938 Funding \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u093f\u090f \u0915\u093e\u0902\u0917\u094d\u0930\u0947\u0938 \u0928\u0947 2010 \u092e\u0947\u0902 FCRA \u0915\u093e\u0928\u0942\u0928 \u092c\u0928\u093e\u092f\u093e \u0925\u093e\u0964<\/p>\n<p>FCRA \u0916\u0924\u094d\u092e \u0939\u094b\u0928\u093e \u092c\u0939\u0941\u0924 \u091c\u0930\u0942\u0930\u0940 \u0939\u094b \u0917\u092f\u093e \u0939\u0948\u0964<\/p>\n<p>Bharat \u092e\u0947\u0902 Love_jihad \u0935\u093f\u0915\u0930\u093e\u0932 \u0930\u0942\u092a \u0932\u0947 \u0930\u0939\u093e \u0939\u0948, \u092e\u0939\u093e\u0930\u093e\u0937\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0930 \u0915\u0940 \u0918\u091f\u0928\u093e \u0938\u094d\u0915\u0942\u0932 \u0915\u0940 \u0932\u0921\u093c\u0915\u0940 \u0915\u094b\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y1T52pm77L\">pic.twitter.com\/y1T52pm77L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0905\u0916\u0923\u094d\u0921 \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 \u0938\u0902\u0915\u0932\u094d\u092a (@Akhand_Bharat_S) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Akhand_Bharat_S\/status\/1948598802430263691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several other social media <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=Maharashtra%20incident.%20%20Jihadi%20killed%20while%20trying%20to%20slit%20the%20throat%20of%20a%20school%20girl%20with%20a%20knife%20after%20failing%20in%20his%20attempt%20to%20trap%20her%20in%20love%20jihad.&amp;src=typed_query\">users<\/a>, including X handles <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/B2upD\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@Ramith18<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/WmzKa\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@Kamlapatitri<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/x4DpR\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@Mahakalbhakt428,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> along with some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/posts?q=MAHARASHTRA%20Incident%60%20Jihadi%20killed%2C%20while%20threatening%20to%20slit%20the%20throat%20of%20a%20school%20girl%20with%20knife%2C%20after%20failing%20in%20his%20attempt%20to%20trap%20her%20in%20LOVE%20JIHAD&amp;filters=eyJyZWNlbnRfcG9zdHM6MCI6IntcIm5hbWVcIjpcInJlY2VudF9wb3N0c1wiLFwiYXJnc1wiOlwiXCJ9In0%3D\">Facebook users<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0also <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/BDPjV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared<\/a> the video with similar claims.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-302957 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/false-claim-that-muslim-boy-trying-to-slit-the-throat-of-a-school-girl-with-a-knife-after-failing-in-his-attempt-to-trap-her-in-love-jihad\/screenshot-2025-07-29-at-1-26-42-pm-278x1024\/'><img 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100vw, 897px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/false-claim-that-muslim-boy-trying-to-slit-the-throat-of-a-school-girl-with-a-knife-after-failing-in-his-attempt-to-trap-her-in-love-jihad\/screenshot-2025-07-29-at-6-29-52-pm-734x1024\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-07-29-at-6.29.52-PM-734x1024-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-07-29-at-6.29.52-PM-734x1024-1.jpg 734w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-07-29-at-6.29.52-PM-734x1024-1-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4><b>Fact Check<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alt News performed a reverse image search using key frames from the viral video. This led us to a report by Aaj Tak from July 22, 2025. The article featured the same video and said that on July 21, around 4 PM, a youth named <\/span>Aryan Waghmale<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> held a minor girl at knifepoint in the Basappa Peth area of Satara city in Maharashtra. Soon, bystanders managed to rescue her and thrashed the man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-29-at-7.42.57-PM-911x1024.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, the report said that according to Satara Superintendent of Police Tushar Doshi, a case had been registered against accused, Aryan Waghmale, at the Shahupuri police station under the POCSO and Arms Acts on charges of molestation and intent to cause harm. It was also said to be a case of \u201cone-sided love\u201d. However, the report does not mention that the bystanders killed the youth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/pune-news\/teen-arrested-for-attempted-knife-attack-on-schoolgirl-in-satara-101753124773982.html\">Hindustan Times<\/a> report covering the incident said, \u201cAccording to the police, the accused Aryan Waghmale, threatened a girl returning home from school at knifepoint in the Basappa Peth Karanje area and tried to thwart locals trying to help her by brandishing the weapon at them. Some passersby, with the help of two off-duty policemen nearby, intervened and stopped the attack.\u201d It also mentioned that the accused was taken into custody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As is evident, the accused, Aryan Waghmale, is not Muslim.\u00a0 He threatened a minor girl at knifepoint and a video of the incident was shared with misleading communal claims and &#8216;love jihad&#8217; controversies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On several occasions, Alt News found that videos of unrelated persons or incidents have been misused to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/?s=%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">target a particular community<\/a> with communal claims.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a young man holding a schoolgirl at knifepoint as she pleads with him in Marathi was widely shared on social media with communal claims that the perpetrator, a Muslim, was threatening the girl after his attempts at enticing her into &#8216;love jihad&#8217; failed. In the video, the girl says in Marathi, \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":303486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,17,55],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[731],"class_list":["post-302957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-religion","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Muslim man held minor girl at knifepoint after failed &#039;love jihad&#039; attempt? 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