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A video of a man dressed in monk’s dress getting beaten up by a mob inside a train carriage is being shared by social media users. One Renee Lynn tweeted the video with the narrative that a Hindu monk was beaten by members of the Christian community for boarding a train carriage which was “predominantly Christians”. Her tweet has garnered more than 9,000 retweets so far.<\/p>\n

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This is Horrible! On this train an old Hindu Saint is being beaten by Christians because he got into a compartment which was predominantly Christians & they did not want this Hindu man to sit with them. If I was on that train I swear I would have went berserk on those Christians! pic.twitter.com\/5gLywPSg0w<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Renee Lynn (@Voice_For_India) March 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[READ: Renee Lynn shares old video from Rajasthan as Hindu woman assaulted by Muslims in Pakistan.]<\/a><\/p>\n

Another Twitter user Akash RSS posted<\/a> the video with the claim, “On Train to Nagercoil, Xtians Kick and Beat Hindu Swamiji Since he Dared to Sit with Them!” Akash RSS is ‘Akash Soni’. In 2017, Alt News had investigated<\/a> and found that he was the man behind a popular fake news website Coverage Times<\/em>.\u00a0Another report published in June 2018 revealed<\/a> that he was one of the individuals running misinformation and propaganda Facebook page \u2018BJP All India\u2019.<\/p>\n

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On Train to Nagercoil, Xtians Kick and Beat Hindu Swamiji Since he Dared to Sit with Them! pic.twitter.com\/h54SyNORpz<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Akash RSS (@Satynistha) March 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Several other users on Twitter<\/a> posted the video with a similar narrative. Tweets by @Uslasher<\/a> and @RajeAiyer<\/a> have garnered close to 2,500 retweets so far.<\/p>\n

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Twitter user Fatima Rasool posted<\/a> the video with a message in Hindi that reads, “\u092c\u0947\u0930\u0939\u092e\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u0939\u0926 \u0939\u0948! \u090f\u0915 \u0939\u093f\u0902\u0926\u0942 \u0938\u0902\u0924 \u0917\u0932\u0924\u0940 \u0938\u0947 \u0909\u0938 \u0921\u092c\u094d\u092c\u0947 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u0948\u0920 \u0917\u092f\u093e \u091c\u093f\u0938\u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0938\u093f\u0930\u094d\u092b \u0907\u0938\u093e\u0908 \u092c\u0948\u0920\u0947 \u0939\u0941\u090f \u0925\u0947\u0964 \u092b\u093f\u0930 \u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e \u091c\u094b \u0939\u0941\u0906 \u0935\u0939 \u0906\u092a\u0915\u0947 \u0938\u093e\u092e\u0928\u0947 \u0939\u0948\u0964”<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Fatima Rasool \u062f\u0648\u0633\u062a (@FatimaRasoolS) March 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Identifying the origin of the video<\/h4>\n

With a keyword search on Twitter, Alt News found the same video tweeted on March 11 with a Tamil text. According to the text, this Hindu monk had misbehaved with a child and was later beaten by the public. The incident took place on a Nagercoil-Coimbatore train. A child was sleeping on the floor and the monk allegedly tried to misbehave. The sadhu was manhandled by the passengers and asked to leave (the train) at Tamil Nadu’s Dindugal station.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 \u0b9a\u0bbe\u0ba3\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0baf\u0ba9\u0bcd (@thechanakkiyan) March 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At 4:24 AM on March 11, Shekinah Santhosh posted the video on Facebook. We found that Santhosh was one of the firsts to post this video on social media.<\/p>\n

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In a conversation with Alt News, Santhosh, who was travelling on the same train, informed, “I was sleeping on an upper berth. I got up when heard noises of the crowd involved in a fight with two guys in the compartment. They were beating the two men for misbehaving with a 10-12-year-old girl. The angry passengers forced them to get down from the carriage at Dindigul station. But there was one more monk who was sitting with these two guys. He (monk) was also misbehaving with the girl. I only started shooting the video when I saw this Hindu monk (the third-man) getting beaten up by the crowd. He was subsequently forced to deboard from the carriage. The crowd also wanted him to be handed over to the police but later didn’t.”<\/p>\n

He further informed that the man in the orange shirt who was beating the monk was a relative of the girl. You can see the original video shot by Santhosh here<\/a>.<\/p>\n