Old Video Of Vandalised Bus In Surat Revived As Karnataka

Video Of Bus Vandalisation In Surat Revived As Karnataka

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An old video from Surat showing a group of people pelting stones at a bus has been revived as attack by Muslim women on a bus in Karnataka. The video has been shared in the backdrop of the Karnataka government's Shakti scheme launched on June 11; in the scheme women can take bus rides for free. The video went viral on Facebook with the caption, "Karnataka govt made free travel for ladies , one Muslim lady asked to stop the bus but the driver didn't stop and then this is the result."

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BOOM debunked the same video in 2019 when it went viral as Muslim auto rickshaw drivers attacking a bus in Bandra, Mumbai. We broke the video into its keyframes and ran a reverse image search on a few of them and found several media reports which mentioned that the incident happened in Surat, Gujarat on July 5, 2019. The incident happened during a silent rally taken out to protest mob lynchings. The protest turned violent after police approached the protesters to stop the rally for lack of permission.

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Old Video Of Bus Vandalisation In Surat Revived As Karnataka

BOOM found that the incident happened in Surat, Gujarat in 2019, when a rally against mob lynching turned violent

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