Assam Police beating up ‘pro-Pakistan Bangladeshis’? Old video from Bengal shared with misleading communal claims

On May 12, 2025, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted that three more people had been arrested in his state on charges of sedition, bringing the tally to a total of 56 arrests in Assam since the Pahalgam attack on April 22.

Against this backdrop, a video went viral on social media in which policemen could be seen lathi-charging some people even as they tried to flee. Users shared this video and claimed that Assam Police was teaching a lesson to Bangladeshis who supported Pakistan.

BJP supporter and X user Dilip Dhanraj Gupta shared the video and called it a big breaking news story, writing sarcastically, “The Assam Police is serving Bangladeshis who support Pakistan.” (Archived link)

BIG BREAKING NEWS

Assam Police servicing Pro Pakistani Bangladeshis.#NuclearLeak #OperationSindoor pic.twitter.com/oaur8ICaeO

— DILIP D GUPTA दिलीप धनराज गुप्ता (@dilipguptamp) May 17, 2025

The handle @VoiceOfAxom, followed by PM Narendra Modi, and X user @SaffronSunanda, both of which have been found sharing communal propaganda and misinformation on several occasions, made similar claims while sharing the video. (Archived link 1, link 2)

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Many X users, including KV Iyyer and Chandan Singh, made the same claim. (Archived link 1, link 2)

Fact Check

Alt News took a closer look at the viral video. We found that both the motorcycles seen in the video had license plates that began with the letters ‘WB’, i.e. ‘West Bengal’.

Further on in the video, we also noticed a green house which had ‘Gopalpur Satsang Club’ written on it in Bangla. Gopalpur is a town in Nadia district of the Indian state of West Bengal. This incident is likely to have taken place in Gopalpur, Nadia, West Bengal.

We performed a reverse image search using some frames taken from the video. We found the same video uploaded on a Facebook page called Kokborok Memes on September 7, 2020. However, there is no specific information attached to the video, as to what the matter was.

The same video was shared in 2021 on the YouTube channel Sayem Nabatati as footage of a “police chase during lockdown”. It is worth noting that the policemen seen in the video are seen wearing masks.

Alt News cannot confirm the incident the video relates to, however it has been circulating on social media since at least September 2020. Furthermore, our investigation revealed that this could be an incident from Gopalpur in West Bengal’s Nadia district.

To sum it up, social media users made misleading claims about the Assam Police beating Pakistan supporters by sharing a five-year-old video and falsely stating it was from Assam.