Video from Bangladesh viral as CAPF forces thrashing Muslim voters in Bengal

A video, about 14 seconds long, is viral on social media, with the claim that it shows paramilitary personnel thrashing Muslim voters with sticks on voting day in West Bengal.

X user Khushi Ambedkar (@PatelKhush51313) posted the viral clip, writing that six Muslim women had reportedly been raped by the security forces. (Archive)

Allegations have surfaced claiming that security forces in West Bengal, reportedly under orders from Rajnath Singh, committed violence against Muslims, including reports of six Muslim women being raped. These claims remain serious and require impartial investigation. pic.twitter.com/BSKchRdGwn

— Khushi Ambedkar (@PatelKhush51313) May 3, 2026

Another X user, Sidd, (@sidd_sharma01) also posted the viral clip in the context of the West Bengal election. (Archive) 

Why are these people being, hit

Can anyone indicate!!! pic.twitter.com/1KoxUGS58g

— 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐝 (@sidd_sharma01) April 29, 2026

Several other users, like @Jai__Samvidhan, @santoshgazipur, @RishiAjnoti, @jeetusp and others also amplified the video on X. (Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4)

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The video was also viral on Facebook, with similar claims.

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It was also viral on Instagram. User @sagar_maurya8874 posted the clip. At the time of this article being written, the clip has garnered more than 60,000 views, and received more than 4,000 likes.

 

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Other users on Instagram also alleged that the clip showed scenes from the West Bengal election.

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Fact Check

We noticed that the logo of “Law TV” was visible in the top-right corner. On looking it up, we found that the logo corresponds to a Bangladesh-based news channel.

Thereafter, to verify the authenticity of the claims surrounding the viral clip, we broke it down into keyframes.

A reverse image search on one such keyframe from the video led us to this Facebook video, uploaded by the Facebook page of “Law TV News”, on February 15.

The caption, which is in Bengali, states: “The military’s treatment of outsider civilians was brutal on election day.”

We checked further and made sure that the news outlet is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

To sum up, the video viral in the context of the West Bengal assembly elections, was originally uploaded in February, by a news agency based in Bangladesh. The claims that it shows CAPF forces attacking Muslim voters in West Bengal are misleading.