{"id":44777,"date":"2019-08-28T19:58:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=44777"},"modified":"2019-08-28T20:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:41:04","slug":"drunk-man-falsely-accused-of-child-lifting-by-a-woman-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/drunk-man-falsely-accused-of-child-lifting-by-a-woman-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk man falsely accused of child-lifting by a woman in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a man who is being pulled by his hair and questioned by a mob is being shared on social media with a claim that a child-kidnapper was caught in Punjab. <em>&#8220;\u092a\u0902\u091c\u093e\u092c \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092e\u0939\u093f\u0932\u093e \u0928\u0947 \u092a\u0915\u0921\u093c\u093e \u092c\u091a\u094d\u091a\u093e \u091a\u094b\u0930 \u0917\u0948\u0902\u0917 \u0915\u093e \u090f\u0915 \u0906\u0926\u092e\u0940 (In Punjab, a woman caught a member of the child-lifting gang -translated)&#8221;,\u00a0<\/em>reads the title of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r1D_TlUD-_s&amp;app=desktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> posted on YouTube on August 12, 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r1D_TlUD-_s&#038;app=desktop\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r1D_TlUD-_s&amp;app=desktop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same video was posted by several other YouTube channels like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=it52sMV5tA0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>ARN Music Bhojpuri<\/em><\/a>. Alt News has received fact-check requests on its official app. It is being claimed that a team of 2,000 Rohingyas is prowling across India to lift children who will be sacrificed. <em>&#8220;\u0938\u093e\u0935\u0927\u093e\u0928 \u092a\u0942\u0930\u0947 \u0939\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0926\u0941\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0928 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0930\u094b\u0939\u093f\u0902\u0917\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0915\u0940 2000 \u0932\u094b\u0917\u094b \u0915\u0940 \u091f\u0940\u092e \u0906\u092f\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u091c\u094b \u092c\u091a\u094d\u091a\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u0909\u0920\u093e \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u0947 \u091c\u093e \u0930\u0939\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u0915\u094b\u0908 \u092c\u0947\u091a\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0948 \u0915\u094b\u0908 \u092c\u0932\u093f \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u093f\u092f\u0947 \u0932\u0947 \u091c\u093e\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0948 \u0916\u0941\u0926 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u094b \u0938\u0941\u0928\u094b \u0913\u0930 \u091c\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0926\u093e \u0938\u0947 \u091c\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0926\u093e \u0907\u0938\u0947 \u092b\u0948\u0932\u093e\u0913&#8221;, <\/em>asserts the text.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44797\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/2019-08-28-15_42_11-React-App.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"713\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/2019-08-28-15_42_11-React-App.png 713w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/2019-08-28-15_42_11-React-App-300x281.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>FACT CHECK<\/h2>\n<p>On listening to the conversation in the video, Alt News found that the mob is conversing in Punjabi. We then did a Google search with keywords like &#8220;Baccha chor Punjab&#8221; in Punjabi and found a two-week-old post. The Punjabi text attested with the video reads, <em>&#8220;\u0a1f\u0a40\u0a28\u0a3e \u0a28\u0a3e\u0a2e \u0a26\u0a40 \u0a14\u0a30\u0a24 \u0a17\u0a32\u0a40 \u0a28\u0a70\u0a2c\u0a30 8 \u0a1f\u0a48\u0a17\u0a4b\u0a30 \u0a28\u0a17\u0a30(\u0a1c\u0a32\u0a70\u0a27\u0a30) \u0a26\u0a47 \u0a39\u0a25\u0a71 \u0a1a\u0a4b \u0a16\u0a4b\u0a39 \u0a15\u0a47 \u0a26\u0a4c\u0a5c \u0a30\u0a3f\u0a39\u0a3e \u0a2c\u0a71\u0a1a\u0a3e \u0a1a\u0a4b\u0a30 \u0a2a\u0a15\u0a5c \u0a15\u0a47 \u0a2a\u0a41\u0a32\u0a38 \u0a26\u0a47 \u0a39\u0a35\u0a3e\u0a32\u0a47 \u0a15\u0a40\u0a24\u0a3e\u0964 \u0a07\u0a39 \u0a2e\u0a48\u0a38\u0a1c \u0a05\u0a17\u0a4c \u0a36\u0a47\u0a05\u0a30 \u0a15\u0a30\u0a28 \u0a26\u0a40 \u0a15\u0a4d\u0a30\u0a3f\u0a2a\u0a3e\u0a32\u0a24\u0a3e \u0a15\u0a40\u0a24\u0a40 \u0a1c\u0a3e\u0a35\u0a47\u0964 (A woman named Tina had caught a thief in the lane number 8 of Tagore Nagar, Jalandhar and handed over to the police &#8211; loosely translated via Google)&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44804\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/2019-08-28-16_47_49-@gditch_gulla-Instagram-post-video-\u0a1f\u0a40\u0a28\u0a3e-\u0a28\u0a3e\u0a2e-\u0a26\u0a40-\u0a14\u0a30\u0a24-\u0a17\u0a32\u0a40-\u0a28\u0a70\u0a2c\u0a30-8-\u0a1f\u0a48\u0a17\u0a4b\u0a30-\u0a28\u0a17\u0a30\u0a1c\u0a32\u0a70\u0a27\u0a30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/2019-08-28-16_47_49-@gditch_gulla-Instagram-post-video-\u0a1f\u0a40\u0a28\u0a3e-\u0a28\u0a3e\u0a2e-\u0a26\u0a40-\u0a14\u0a30\u0a24-\u0a17\u0a32\u0a40-\u0a28\u0a70\u0a2c\u0a30-8-\u0a1f\u0a48\u0a17\u0a4b\u0a30-\u0a28\u0a17\u0a30\u0a1c\u0a32\u0a70\u0a27\u0a30.jpg 485w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/2019-08-28-16_47_49-@gditch_gulla-Instagram-post-video-\u0a1f\u0a40\u0a28\u0a3e-\u0a28\u0a3e\u0a2e-\u0a26\u0a40-\u0a14\u0a30\u0a24-\u0a17\u0a32\u0a40-\u0a28\u0a70\u0a2c\u0a30-8-\u0a1f\u0a48\u0a17\u0a4b\u0a30-\u0a28\u0a17\u0a30\u0a1c\u0a32\u0a70\u0a27\u0a30-175x300.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We then ran a keyword search on Google with Hindi keywords, <em>&#8220;\u091f\u0940\u0928\u093e \u092c\u091a\u094d\u091a\u093e \u091a\u094b\u0930&#8221;<\/em>, and found a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhaskar.com\/punjab\/jalandhar\/news\/waiter-wishes-to-shake-hands-with-school-going-child-people-beat-him-as-thief-081005-5196797.html?ref1=feedback&amp;utm_expid=.YYfY3_SZRPiFZGHcA1W9Bw.1&amp;utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dainik Bhaskar<\/a><\/em> report published on August 8, 2019. The incident took place on the morning on August 7 in New Sant Nagar locality of Punjab&#8217;s Jalandhar city. Tina Sharma was on her way to drop her child to school when a drunk man forcefully tried to take her child while allegedly saying, <em>&#8220;give me&#8221;<\/em> your kid. Listening to Tina&#8217;s cries for help, a crowd had gathered at the spot and he was beaten up. According to the report,\u00a0 a waiter was falsely accused of child-lifting and was let off only after the family was informed about every aspect of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Alt News reached out the Division 5 police station, SHO Ravinder Singh, who said, <em>&#8220;He was a waiter who used to stay at his uncle&#8217;s place. He was drinking alcohol from the night before the incident and the next morning, he again had some more drinks. He was lying on a bench that day when this woman was passing by him on the road. Then, this man tried to touch the woman&#8217;s child and the woman thought he had come to lift her child. That was the case. People mistook him of being a child-lifter. He got sober, nearly fours hours after the incident.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Raju, the man who was beaten by a mob over a false suspicion of him being a child-kidnapper, was handed over to his younger brother Michael and uncle Durga Bahadur after taking assurance from the child&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>A video of a drunk man who was harassed by a group of people over the accusation that he was trying to lift a child in Punjab was shared on social media with the false claim that a child-kidnapper was caught in Punjab. Similarly, in Rajasthan&#8217;s Bandikui city, a drunk man held captive on false <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/drunk-man-taken-hostage-by-mob-over-false-suspicion-of-child-kidnapping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suspicion<\/a> of him being a child lifter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a man who is being pulled by his hair and questioned by a mob is being shared on social media with a claim that a child-kidnapper was caught in Punjab. &#8220;\u092a\u0902\u091c\u093e\u092c \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092e\u0939\u093f\u0932\u093e \u0928\u0947 \u092a\u0915\u0921\u093c\u093e \u092c\u091a\u094d\u091a\u093e \u091a\u094b\u0930 \u0917\u0948\u0902\u0917 \u0915\u093e \u090f\u0915 \u0906\u0926\u092e\u0940 (In Punjab, a woman caught a member of the child-lifting gang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":44841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-44777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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