Video of husband assaulting wife in UP viral with false communal claims that Muslim man beat up Hindu woman

by Prantik Ali

Trigger Warning: The story has visuals and descriptions of violence & domestic abuse. Reader’s discretion advised.

A video of a man physically assaulting a woman—kicking, slapping, and even hitting her with a rolling pin—is viral on social media. The video is being shared with communal claims that this is the fate of Hindu wives married to Muslim men.

X user @Lawyer_Kalpana posted the viral video with a Hindi caption, which translates to: “Look, secular Hindu girls, the same will happen to you; there is still time, go back home.” (Archive)

Another X user, @SonOfBharat7, also shared the video with similar claims. He identified the woman in the clip as 25-year-old Nandini Rao and the man as Aryan Khan. The caption, which is in Hindi, goes into details about how the woman was lured into marriage, and then tortured and sexually harassed by Khan and his family members:

“… Nandini was held captive in a flat in Domjur, Howrah, where she faced unimaginable torture and sexual harassment by Aryan Khan, his mother Shweta Khan, and a minor family member, Zoya Khan. The tortures were systematic and relentless. Nandini was beaten with iron rods, her body was burned with cigarette butts, and her hair was forcibly cut as a form of humiliation. She was repeatedly raped, with reports revealing that rods were inserted into her private parts, a level of cruelty beyond comprehension. The accused allegedly pressured her to participate in shooting obscene videos and work as a bar dancer, and when she refused, the violence escalated.”

The user also alleges that Khan has been arrested in Kolkata, and that the police are examining “potential links to a larger pornographic racket.” At the time this article was written, this post had over 2.4 million views. (Archive)

X user @ocjain4 had also posted the viral claim. However, it was later deleted. (Archive)

Several other X users, such as @BHUPENDER_HRD and @JIX5A, also shared the video with similar claims.

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Fact Check

To check the authenticity of the claims circulating on social media, we ran a reverse image search on one of the key frames from the viral video. This led us to an Instagram post, uploaded on June 21, 2025, featuring the same video.

In the caption, the user claims the video is from the Sikandar Gate area in Moti Colony, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh.

Taking cue from this, we ran a relevant keyword search in Hindi and came across the same video shared on X on June 19. The caption said that the incident was from the Sikander Gate police outpost area, Moti Colony, under the Hapur city police station jurisdiction. We also found that the official X handle of Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur Police had commented below this post, clarifying that the video is over a month old: “The aforementioned viral video is about one and a half months old, in which the man beating the woman is her husband, regarding whom a case has been registered earlier at the Hapur Nagar police station under relevant sections, and the process of evidence collection has been completed, with the charge sheet already sent to the honorable court.”

We found another post from June 26, made by the official handle of the Hapur Police, refuting the communal angle in the viral claims. It said that the person beating the woman was her husband and that both of them are Muslim. A case was registered at Hapur Nagar police station for physical assault.

Thus, as clarified by the police, there is no communal angle in the case of the assault. The viral video, depicts an incident from over a month ago in which a man is beating his wife. Both the husband and wife are Muslims and the incident is from Uttar Pradesh, unlike what the viral claims suggest.

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