Fact Check: Video of an old incident of urinating on a youth is now viral

New Delhi (Vishvas News). A 31-second video is going viral on various social media platforms. In this, a young man can be seen urinating on another young man. Some users are making this incident viral by saying that it happened recently.

Vishwas News investigated the viral post. It was found that the incident of November 2023 is being made viral now to spread confusion. After the incident, all the accused have been arrested and sent to jail. No such incident has happened recently.

what is going viral

Facebook user Sachin Meshram On June 14, he uploaded a video and claimed, “Urine scandal like MP in Meerut too. In Meerut, 12th class student Karan Chaudhary was beaten up badly, then a video was made of urinating on his face and the accused themselves made the video viral. FIR has been filed against Avi Sharma, Ashish Malik, Rajan, Mohit Thakur but under very mild sections. Make this video so viral that all these goons are caught and a case should be filed against all these goons under Gangster Act and their property should be confiscated and bulldozers should be run on their houses.”

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The content of the viral post has been written verbatim for the purpose of fact checking. Many users are making it viral by considering it to be true. Archived version of the post Here See.

investigation

Vishwas News searched on Google by creating keywords based on the viral post. We found a news on Quint Hindi’s YouTube channel. The viral video was used in it. This report dated 26 November 2023 stated, “A student who went out to distribute sweets after Diwali in Meerut was brutally beaten up by about 7 goons after kidnapping him. After beating him, they also urinated on his face. Two videos of the entire incident have surfaced. Which are viral on social media. The police registered a case and arrested one of the accused.”

During the search Up to UP We found a news related to the incident on a website named. This news published on 27 November 2023 stated, “Two more accused were arrested in the urination scandal case in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh. So far three people have been arrested in the case. Apart from this, the police also increased the sections in the case after taking cognizance of the video.”

The news further explained the incident in detail and wrote, “The case is from Jagriti Vihar Extension of Meerut’s Police Station Medical area, where a 12th class student had gone to his aunt’s house to give her sweets on November 13. It is alleged that on the way, some youths kidnapped him and held him hostage. After this, he was taken to a deserted road in Jagriti Vihar and beaten up. When the accused were not satisfied with this, they urinated on the student and also made a video of it and made it viral.”

Vishwas News furthered the investigation and contacted Sunil, crime reporter of Dainik Jagran, Meerut. He informed that the viral video is of last year’s incident. In November 2023, some people held a young man hostage and harassed him. The accused have been sent to jail in this case.

At the end of the investigation, the user who made the video of an old incident viral by claiming it to be a recent one was investigated. This Facebook user named Sachin Meshram lives in Jabalpur. More than 16 thousand people follow him.

Conclusion: Vishvas News investigated and found that the video of the incident that took place in Meerut in November 2023 is now being made viral to spread confusion.

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