CLAIMA horrific
CCTV
footage in which a man is pulled out of his car and stabbed to death by a group of men is being shared with the claim that RSS activists hacked to death a
Dalit
IAS officer in broad daylight. It is being further claimed that the RSS workers also gang-raped his daughter inside the car.
Facebook user 'Muhammad Rafi Rafi' made the claim in
Malayalam
language. The video-post can be viewed
here. (
viewer discretion advised)
TRUTHThe claim is false. It is a CCTV footage from Nagpur where gambling den kingpin Balya Binekar was killed by some rival gangsters at a busy city square close to the residence of state Home Minister
Anil Deshmukh.
VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGYUsing InVID google chrome extension, we broke the video into keyframes and ran reverse-image search on them.
The results led us to a tweet posted on September 27, 2020 by Ashish Merkhed. The tweet carried the same video which is shared in the claim above.
As per the description, Kishor Binekar alias Balya, a suspected gambling den kingpin, was stabbed to death at a petrol pump in Nagpur.
Using relevant keywords, we found a detailed report about the incident published on September 26, 2020 by the Times of India.
VERDICTTimes Fact Check has found that video in which a suspected criminal was killed by rivals is being shared with a false claim that RSS men hacked to death a Dalit IAS officer and raped his daughter.