Misleading video misleadingly shows religious hate crimes, attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh
A recent video posted on social media claims to show another religious hate crime in Bangladesh. The video allegedly showed radical Islamists brutally attacking three Hindus in Bangladesh and cutting water hyacinths out of the river with an axe.
Fact-check misleading videos mistakenly show religious hate crimes, attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh. (Photo source: PTI)
A recent video posted on social media claims to show another religious hate crime in Bangladesh. The video allegedly showed radical Islamists brutally attacking three Hindus in Bangladesh and cutting water hyacinths out of the river with an axe.
However, during the investigation, the PTI fact check desk found that the video had nothing to do with any religious hate crime incidents. Instead, it portrays a violent conflict that broke out a property dispute between two cousins (which belonged to the same community) in the Kaliganpai region of Bangladesh. An unrelated video was shared on social media to mislead viewers’ religious hate crimes against Bangladesh.
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X user shared a video on March 31, and X user allegedly shared a video on March 31 showing religious hate crimes against Hindus in Bangladesh. The video depicts an alleged incident in the Ghazpur district of Bangladesh, where Islamists attacked three Hindus with an axe and cut into the water hyacinth from the river. All three victims are said to be in critical condition, fighting for their lives.
At the time of posting this article, 24.1k people watched the viral video. This is the original video.
In Kaliganj, #Gazipur In the region, Islamic militants brutally attacked three Hindu ethnic minorities with an axe, which was a “crime” for cutting water from the river.
All three victims are in critical condition, fighting for their lives. pic.twitter.com/gni7tfjzov
– Indian Voice (@hinduvoice_in) March 31, 2025
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The desk runs the virus video through the Invid tool and extracts multiple key frames. After running a keyframe through Google Lens, the table found multiple users sharing with similar claims.
Two such posts can be found here and here, with their archived versions available here and here respectively.
In the next part of the investigation, to confirm the claims in the virus column, the table conducted a custom keyword search on Google and encountered a report published by Bangladesh-based Bengali newspaper Dainik Desh Rupantor.
The report, released on March 31, 2025, provides extensive details of the incident, noting that it was due to a long-term property dispute between two long-term property disputes called Ramcharan and Narayan, in the Kaliganj region of Bangladesh.
“On Sunday (March 30), Ramcharan and his son Jhantu Das attacked their cousins Narayan, Giribala and Haradhan Chandra Das in Kaliganj for their axe because of previous hatred for land disputes.”
This is Related Report to reports, and screenshots.
The table then concluded that the video showing the axe attack on individuals did not depict religious hate crimes against Hindus in Bangladesh.
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Radical Islamists brutally attacked three Hindus in Bangladesh, cutting water hyacinths out of the river with an axe.
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The video actually shows a violent conflict that broke out a property dispute between two cousins (which belong to the same community) in the Kaliganpai region of Bangladesh.
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Several social media users recently shared a video claiming it showed radical Islamists attacking three Hindus in Bangladesh while cutting water hyacinths out of the river in Bangladesh. The table found in the investigation that the video did not depict religious hate crimes but had a protracted property dispute in the Kaliganj area of Bangladesh, showing violent conflict in the Kaliganj area of Bangladesh.
(This story has not been edited by DNA staff and published from PTI in addition to the title)
