{"id":45491,"date":"2019-09-07T15:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T10:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=45491"},"modified":"2019-09-07T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T12:41:43","slug":"physically-challenged-man-beaten-to-death-in-up-on-false-child-kidnapping-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/physically-challenged-man-beaten-to-death-in-up-on-false-child-kidnapping-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Physically-challenged man beaten to death in UP on false child-kidnapping rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 2, Facebook user Deepak Bagi<\/a> posted a disturbing video of a man who is lying supine on the ground while a mob can be heard questioning him about child-kidnapping. The mob also thrashes him with sticks. Bagi shared the video with the claim that a child-kidnapper was caught by locals in Lodipur, beaten-up and later arrested by Dhammaur police.<\/p>\n

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A few other individuals<\/a> have posted the same video with an identical narrative.<\/p>\n

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A Twitter user<\/a> also posted the same video with a message that the video was circulating on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

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@khyatigarg_ips<\/a> madam Please take appropriate action ASAP.
\nif it\u2019s recent incident at dhammaur Police station @Uppolice<\/a> @policenewsup<\/a> @News18UP<\/a> @up100<\/a> @yvikashsamiti<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/wbHu4ITmHj<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 khushnoor Mirza (@KhushnoorSir) September 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Differently-abled man lynched by mob in UP on false child-kidnapping rumours<\/h2>\n

With a keyword search on Google, we found a report published by Amar Ujala<\/em><\/a> on September 1, 2019. A group of labourers, who were travelling in a pick-up truck, had a tiff with a salesman at a local liquor shop. The group tried to forcefully take the salesman with them in their pick-up truck when the salesman began crying for help and shouting, “baccha chor baccha chor (child kidnappers.)” <\/em>According to the report, the incident took place in a village located in the jurisdiction of Piperpur police station of Amethi district, Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n

In a statement given to the media, Amethi SP Khyati Garg informed, “From the twelve people who were beaten up, one has died – Siyaram, a resident of Sonbhadra [district]. Two people are critical who have been referred to Lucknow for treatment. Rest of the nine people are being treated here in Amethi district.”<\/em> She rubbished the child-kidnapping rumour by saying, “Whatever rumour [child-kidnapping], there was no truth in it. We completely deny the child-kidnapping rumour, there is no child-kidnapping gang operating here”.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2014 AMETHI POLICE (@amethipolice) September 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alt News contacted Piperpur police station regarding the claims circulating on social media. The police reiterated that these were only rumours and the ones attacked were not child-kidnappers. We were also informed that the man in the video is Siyaram, a physically challenged man, who was lynched by the mob. According to the police, nine people were arrested in the matter.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, a physically-challenged labourer was falsely accused of being a child-lifter, brutally thrashed with sticks and lynched by a mob in Uttar Pradesh. A video of the gruesome incident where the same man lost his life due to the false rumours is now being circulated on social media to further propagate the fictitious hearsay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On September 2, Facebook user Deepak Bagi posted a disturbing video of a man who is lying supine on the ground while a mob can be heard questioning him about child-kidnapping. The mob also thrashes him with sticks. Bagi shared the video with the claim that a child-kidnapper was caught by locals in Lodipur, beaten-up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":45607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-45491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Amethi-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45491","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=45491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45628,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45491\/revisions\/45628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45491"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=45491"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=45491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}