30-07-2025
Fact Check: This video DOES NOT show West Bengal Muslim girl forcing Hindu girl to date her brother
A video allegedly showing a Muslim girl in West Bengal slapping a Hindu girl is being widely shared online. The video appears recorded on a school or college campus and shows a girl in a uniform being repeatedly slapped. Hindi text in the video claimed this was a new form of 'love jihad' and that the girl was slapping and forcing the other one to be in a relationship with her brother. advertisementA Facebook user shared the video with the caption, 'Situation of West Bengal Girls.'
India Today Fact Check found that this video is not from West Bengal but from ProbeReverse-searching keyframes from the viral video, we found that many Bangladeshi social media accounts had shared it with the claim that it showed two girls fighting over a Bangla conversation heard in the video translates to: 'What is happening? You have made me lose sleep in the morning. You have made me angry. Why did you talk to Milan? You should not talk to Milan anymore. This is a warning. Are you planning to fall in love with Milan? How can you even think of that?'Although we cannot say this with certainty, the conversation doesn't indicate that a Muslim girl was forcing a Hindu girl to date her also found a clarification post by the West Bengal police. As per this post on X, the video is not from Bengal but from Dhaka's Shahid Muktijoddha Girls High West Bengal Police (@WBPolice) July 28, 2025A Facebook page called 'S Muktijoddha Girls' High School' features a group photo of its students. On comparing the uniforms of the students in this school with those of the girls in the viral video, we found clear sum up, this video does not show a West Bengal incident.- EndsTune InMust Watch
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