CLAIM
A viral video on social media which shows a man beating children with a stick is being shared with the claim that it is from Delhi Public School (DPS) in Gujarat’s Valsad. The man in the video has been allegedly identified as Shakeel Ahmed Ansari, who is a teacher at the institution.
Several social media users have shared the video on Facebook and Twitter with a similar claim.
TRUE OR FALSE?
The claim with which the video is being shared is false. The video is not from DPS Valsad but an orphanage in Egypt.
WHAT WE FOUND OUT
We did a frame-to-frame analysis using InVID, a video verification tool, and then reverse-searched each frame on Yandex. This led us to an article published by Daily Mail in August 2014.
The article is titled ‘Wife films secret footage of orphanage manager beating children with a stick and kicking them until they burst into tears in case that has shocked Egypt.’
Reportedly, the man in the video is Osama Mohamed Othman, an orphanage manager in Egypt, and the video which shows him beating the children was recorded by his wife. The orphanage manager stated that he was just attempting to stop the children from misbehaving and that he considered them his own children.
VIRAL WITH DIFFERENT CLAIM IN THE PAST
In July 2018, the same video went viral with the claim that the incident took place at ‘RM VM’ school in Valsad.
However, R M & V M Desai Vidyadham’s website had then clarified that several videos on social media, attributed to the school, were completely unrelated.
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