A video in which a woman is seen lying in the bushes with a crowd gathered around her is doing the rounds on social media. A group of policemen are also seen at the scene. It is claimed that the woman, supposedly a resident of Jharkhand, was raped by six men and then killed, after which the body was thrown in the bushes.
An Instagram user made this claim while sharing the footage and called it an incident from Jharkhand.
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Numerous other users also shared this video on Instagram with the same claim.
Fact Check
A reverse image search using frames taken from the viral video led us to the source video on the Instagram profile of Mg Prodip Panging Taye, a user from Assam. The caption of this post states that this is a behind-the-scenes video from the shooting of a forthcoming film titled Lujeg.
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We looked for further details about the film on YouTube, and came across a related video uploaded by a YouTube channel named Biraz And Raz on May 16, 2025. In these visuals, the woman whose video is widespread on social media is seen wearing the same clothes. It shows the preparations carried out before the shooting of the rape scene. It is clear from this that the viral video is not of the actual incident, but of a film shoot.
Hence, it is clear that many social media users falsely shared visuals from a film shoot with the false claim that the woman seen in the video was had been raped and killed in Jharkhand.
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