{"id":90274,"date":"2021-04-13T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T08:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=90274"},"modified":"2021-04-13T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T08:12:36","slug":"old-video-from-manipur-viral-as-poll-violence-in-west-bengals-cooch-behar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-from-manipur-viral-as-poll-violence-in-west-bengals-cooch-behar\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video from Manipur viral as poll violence in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar"},"content":{"rendered":"

A two-minute clip of a crowd breaking into a polling booth has been shared by several Twitter users<\/a> with the claim that it shows an incident from West Bengal’s Cooch Behar. “Excellent job done by CRPF in pushing away the goons,” reads the message.<\/p>\n

Twitter user @TNSubbaRao<\/a> posted the video on April 12. Since then it has been viewed over 10,000 times.<\/p>\n

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Mamata Banerjee’s supporters mob storming a polling booth in coochbihar, West Bengal.<\/p>\n

EXCELLENT job done by the CRPF in pushing away the goons…#WestBengalPolls<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/WTu2W4IzPD<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Subba Rao \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@TNSubbaRao1) April 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some Facebook users have posted the video along with Bengali text (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>) that alleges the video shows violence in Cooch Behar’s Sitalkuchi where four people were killed<\/a> in CISF firing. One Haradhan Ghosh’s post gained over 50,000 views before it was taken down.<\/p>\n

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Posted by Bhaskar Samanta<\/a> on Monday, 12 April 2021<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Fact-check<\/h4>\n

After performing multiple reverse image searches we found that the video in question was uploaded in 2019<\/a> on YouTube. Around the 20-second mark, a text appears on the video that states it’s from Kyamgei Muslim village in Manipur. This led us to report by The Indian Express from April 18, 2019. “CRPF\u200b personnel opened blank fire and resorted to lathi-charge to disperse a crowd in Manipur\u200b. The crowd allegedly tried to barge into Kyamgei Muslim Makha Leikaik polling station of Inner Manipur seat,” according to the report. The incident pertains to the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n