A video, around 37 seconds long, is viral on social media. It shows three youths bound with ropes being assaulted by a man carrying a cane. Police personnel can be seen present at the scene, as the three young men are paraded down the street.

Several users have amplified this clip, claiming that the three young men — all of them Muslims — were supposedly apprehended and beaten up for harassing schoolgirls.

X user @HindutvaDon_ posted the clip on X. The post amassed more than 50,000 views and close to 1,000 re-shares at the time of this article being written. He claimed the three were Mohammad Arif, Asraf Ali and Asif Khan. (Archive)

X user @MeghUpdates, who frequently shares communal misinformation, posted the clip with the same claim — that the three perpetrators were Muslims. (Archive)

X user (@RealBababanaras) had uploaded this clip, back on May 26, with a similar claim. (Archive)

Readers should note that Baba Banaras, too, has been found sharing communal misinformation several times in the past.

Several other users, including @Sudhir_mish, @SouleFacts and @ocjain4 also circulated the claims. Archives: 1, 2, 3

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Fact Check

To investigate the veracity of the claims surrounding this viral video, we broke it down into keyframes. A reverse image search on one such keyframe led us to this X post, made by user @IacHead, on April 17. 

It is the same video as the one that went viral recently. The caption, however, contradicts the claims, identifying the three accused as Kishan, Vikas, and Ramesh. It is said that they had been beaten up for vandalising houses and windows in the neighbourhood at night.

Taking cue from the caption of this X post, we ran a relevant keyword search on Google. This led us to an article by Dainik Bhaskar, published on April 16, which reports on the incident.

According to the report, late into the night on April 16, some 10-12 miscreants, armed with sticks, knives and swords, pelted stones to vandalise houses windows and vehicles in the Dhanda Bhavan area of ​​Ujjain, in Madhya Pradesh. Police arrested three individuals and paraded them in the area. The report also mentions the name of the three accused who appear in the viral video: Kishan Ahirwar, Vikas Saroniya, and Vishal.

Another report, by Navbharat Times, elucidates that the dispute had broken over something as trivial as a refusal to offer a car wash. The complainant, one Sheran Ali, had declined a car wash to the miscreants, citing time constraint. This resulted in a violent retaliation, culminating in the vandalism of vehicles and house windows late at night.

In conclusion, the viral video, which several users have claimed shows three Muslim youths accused of harassing schoolgirls, actually shows three miscreants in Ujjain who vandalised private property, in April 2026. They are not Muslims. Their names are Kishan Ahirwar, Vikas Saroniya, and Vishal.

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Video shows three Muslim youth beaten up for harassing schoolgirls in Ujjain

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