{"id":55182,"date":"2019-12-31T14:15:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T08:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=55182"},"modified":"2019-12-31T15:01:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T09:31:14","slug":"no-the-elderly-man-pelting-stone-in-kanpur-is-not-muslim-cleric-from-muzaffarnagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-the-elderly-man-pelting-stone-in-kanpur-is-not-muslim-cleric-from-muzaffarnagar\/","title":{"rendered":"No, the elderly man pelting stone in Kanpur is not Muslim cleric from Muzaffarnagar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author Bhaavna Arora tweeted<\/a> two images – a screenshot of an injured elderly man and a photo of an old man who can be seen pelting a stone – along with the message, “Chacha patharbaaji karega to kya khane ko milega? Biryani? (Uncle, if you pelt stones, what will you eat? Biryani?)”. <\/em>Her tweet has garnered over 1,000 retweets.<\/p>\n

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Chacha patharbaaji karega to kya khane ko milega? Biryani? pic.twitter.com\/PQhRNOlKe4<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 bhaavna arora (@BhaavnaArora) December 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another Twitter user Vivek posted the images and quipped, “Newton’s third law: For\u00a0every action, there is an\u00a0equal and opposite reaction.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Newton’s third law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. https:\/\/t.co\/p53dWz10z0<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/sCX3UUhMGL<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Vivekk | \u0935\u093f\u0935\u0947\u0915 | \u09ac\u09bf\u09ac\u09c7\u0995 | \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb5\u0bc7\u0b95\u0bcd | (@oyevivekk) December 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One more tweet<\/a>, comparing the same two images, has garnered more than 1,000 retweets so far.<\/p>\n

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Sochta hu wo kitne maasoom the,kya se kya ho gaye dekhte dekhte….. \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d #UPPoliceZindabad<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/3FEpRsC2v2<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \u1d2c\u1d39\u1d2e\u1d31\u1d3f (@dafa_ho__jao) December 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fact-check<\/h2>\n

Alt News found that the two men are not the same person as suggested on social media.<\/p>\n

Image 1: Kanpur<\/strong><\/h3>\n

With a keyword search on Google, Alt News found a PDF version<\/a> of\u00a0Hindustan Times’s<\/em> Lucknow edition which was published on December 22, 2019. However, according to the caption of the image, it was shot on December 21 (Saturday).\u00a0 “An elderly man throws a stone during the protest in Kanpur on Saturday,”\u00a0<\/em>reads the caption. The man is unidentified in the photo.<\/p>\n

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Image 2: Muzaffarnagar<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The other image is of Maulana Asad Raza Hussaini, 65, who along with students staying in the Saadat hostel, Muzaffarnagar, was beaten up and taken into custody by the police. Hussaini was bedridden with multiple injuries, according to a December 24 report by Firstpost<\/em><\/a>. Journalist Narendra tweeted Hussaini’s image on December 29, 2019.<\/p>\n

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#\u092e\u0941\u091c\u093c\u092b\u094d\u092b\u0930\u0928\u0917\u0930<\/a> \u0915\u0947 \u0935\u093f\u0936\u094d\u0935\u0935\u093f\u0916\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0924 \u092e\u0941\u0938\u094d\u0932\u093f\u092e \u0936\u093f\u0915\u094d\u0937\u093e\u0935\u093f\u0926 \u092e\u094c\u0932\u093e\u0928\u093e \u0905\u0938\u0926 \u0930\u091c\u093c\u093e \u0939\u0941\u0938\u0948\u0928\u0940 \u0915\u094b @muzafarnagarpol<\/a> \u0928\u0947 \u0926\u0940 \u0925\u0930\u094d\u0921 \u0921\u093f\u0917\u094d\u0930\u0940,\u0907\u0938\u0940 \u0938\u093e\u0932 \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 \u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930 \u0928\u0947 \u0926\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0925\u093e \u0930\u093e\u0937\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0930\u092a\u0924\u093f \u092a\u0941\u0930\u0938\u094d\u0915\u093e\u0930,\u092e\u094c\u0932\u093e\u0928\u093e \u0905\u0938\u0926 \u0915\u0947 \u0905\u0928\u093e\u0925\u093e\u0932\u092f \u0915\u0947 \u091b\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0930\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u092d\u0940 \u0925\u0930\u094d\u0921 \u0921\u093f\u0917\u094d\u0930\u0940@naqvimukhtar<\/a> @narendramodi<\/a> @Uppolice<\/a>
\nMy story-https:\/\/t.co\/fm0FCl62PK<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/xapZOBo9mT<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Narendra (@hindipatrakar) December 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to a hostel staffer quoted in a December 31\u00a0<\/em>report in\u00a0The Times of India<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Hussaini was dragged out of the madrassa-cum-orphanage and taken to a discreet location. He was allegedly assaulted for hours before he was let off in the wee hours of December 21 following intervention by influential people from the region.\u00a0The Times of India\u00a0<\/em>quotes his age as 72.<\/p>\n

Another report by Bharat Samachar<\/em><\/a> reports similar details. It says that Maulana Asad Raza Hussaini, a renowned<\/a> Muslim cleric, was dragged out of the hostel and beaten up by Muzaffarnagar police during a search operation to comb out rioters.<\/p>\n