Faridabad attacker who stalked and shot a minor in broad daylight is Hindu; viral claims that he is Muslim baseless

A 37-second-long clip, seemingly CCTV footage, where a man is seen shooting a woman, is viral on social media with communal claims that a girl was attacked by a ‘Muslim terrorist’ for refusing his advances.

In the clip, which shows a view of a street, the man is seen standing next to his bike on one side of the street. A few seconds later, three women enter the frame, walking on the other side of the street. The man then crosses the street and points the gun at one of the women, shoots her and then flees on the bike. Social media users claimed that the 19-year-old girl was returning from her coaching classes when the incident took place.

X user VINI (@Vini___007) posted the above-mentioned clip on November 6 and wrote, “Hindus need to keep proper watch and security over their sisters and daughters.. The Hindu community must stay united. Watch their every movement, and if they have friendship or conversation with people of other religions, immediately break it off. Otherwise, face terrible consequences”. (Archive)

A few other users also posted the viral clip with communal claims. Below are some instances.

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Fact Check

To verify the authenticity of this claim, we broke down the viral clip into multiple keyframes and ran a reverse image search on a few of them. This led us to a news report by The Hindu from November 6, which featured a still from the video. The report said that the victim, a 17-year-old Class 12 student, was on her way back home from the library when she was attacked in Faridabad’s Shyam Colony on November 3. She was shot at point-blank range — one bullet struck her shoulder while another grazed her abdomen.

The report also stated that the victim was stable, and an FIR was registered at the City Ballabgarh police station. The police have also arrested one Mr Mangla, a resident of Sarmathla village near Sohna in Gurugram, on November 5.

We came across another report by Times of India, where the accused’s full name was mentioned as Jatin Mangla.

Alt News reached out to inspector Shamsher Singh, the station-in-charge at the Ballabgarh police station, who rubbished the claim that the perpetrator was Muslim. “Both the victim and the accused are Hindu; there is no communal angle”, inspector Singh said.

Therefore, claims that the attacker in the Faridabad shooting case is Muslim are completely baseless. Both the attacker and the victim were Hindu as clarified by the police and news reports.