A video, in which policemen are seen beating up half-naked men in public, is doing the rounds of social media. Users are sharing the video while claiming that police beat up Ambedkar supporters in public to teach them a lesson for allegedly threatening ‘Manuvadis’ on social media.
X user Vikash Kumar Sinha shared the video with the same claim.
इंस्टाग्राम पर मनुवादियों को धमकी देने बाली भीमटा गैंग की आज सेवा की गई 😃 टोचन जिंदाबाद 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/JKpTe6peM5
— Vikash Kumar Sinha (@vikashaps) June 30, 2025
Other X users like Neela Zeher, and numerous Facebook and Instagram users including the handle @Modified_Hindu9 promoted the footage with similar claims.
Fact Check
When we took a closer look at the viral video, we noticed that a logo was visible in it. When we searched for this logo with the help of Google Lens, we found that it was the logo of “Kannada Pichhar”, a social media handle that posts content related to Kannada cinema.
Next, we performed a reverse image search with frames taken from the video in question. This time, we found the same footage uploaded on the YouTube channel of “Kannada Pichhar” on April 15, 2025. In the accompanying caption, the video was described as the making of the film ‘Deadly Soma 2’.
Apart from this, we also discovered that the same video had also been uploaded on the Instagram page of “Kannada Pichhar”.
Along with this, there are many other videos from the shooting of the film “Deadly Soma 2” on the YouTube channel and Instagram page of “Kannada Pichhar”, in which a cameraman can also be seen.
News 26 Kannada aired some of the above-mentioned footage in a report and noted that the film was being shot in Bengaluru. “Deadly Soma 2” is the sequel of the 2005 Kannada film “Deadly Soma”, which was directed by Ravi Srivatsa.
In other words, the viral video does not show police actually beating up youths on the streets, but is a scene from the shooting of a Kannada film. The claims of Ambedkar-supporters being thrashed are entirely baseless.
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