Old Video of Family Dispute in Noida Falsely Shared as Mob Attack in Punjab

This video dates back to 2022 and shows an incident from Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

Fact-check: An old video of two people hitting a disabled man in Uttar Pradesh is being falsely shared as from Punjab.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

A video showing two people hitting a disabled man, seated on a two-wheeler, with sticks is going viral on social media to claim that 'an extremist mob' attacked a man in Punjab.

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Where is the video actually from?: The video dates back to 2022 and is from Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

• It shows a family feud over renting out a school owned by the family during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How did we find out the truth?:  We divided the video into multiple keyframes and ran a reverse image search on some of them.

• This led us to several news reports from March 2022 from news outlets like NDTV, The Print and Zee News.

• The report by NDTV carried the viral video and stated that this incident happened in Greater Noida's Jewar.

• It added that a disabled man was assaulted by his relatives over a dispute about property.

• It also stated that this happened on 27 March 2022 and identified the disabled man as Gajendra and his relative, Jugendra.

• The reason for the dispute was mentioned to be a disagreement over renting a family owned school to tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The video is from 2022 and from Uttar Pradesh.

(Source: NDTV/Screenshot)

Statement from the police: We also found a video uploaded by the Twitter handle of Police Commissionerate Gautam Buddh Nagar on March 29 2022.

• In the video Pandey says, “The specially-abled man had rented a property from his relatives to run a school. But due to the COVID-19 lockdown, he couldn’t afford the expenses. This escalated into an argument between them and the two accused attacked the elderly man beating him and vandalizing his two-wheeler. The man and woman seen attacking in the video have been arrested and further investigation into the case is underway.”

• We also contacted Pandey who said that the information stated in the video by him about his case is correct and can be used in the story.

Conclusion: An old video of two people hitting a disabled man in Uttar Pradesh is being falsely shared as from Punjab.

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