A video, claiming that Muslim residents have “terrorized” the people of Sangam Vihar in New Delhi, is making the rounds on social media. The video shows a physical altercation between a group of young men and an elderly person in which the group attacking the senior citizen with sticks.
A twitter user named Pankaj Thakur shared the video stating, “Check out this video. First Jahangirpuri, now Sangam Vihar. This is escalating and Hindus should stay away. Once this has progressed sufficiently, you will find out, like the people of Kashmir, Bengal, Kerala and Karnataka found out after they were ousted. An incident of Muslims terrorizing people from Delhi’s Sangam Vihar. This is what happens when we allow Muslims to reside around us.”
Sharing the video another user named Meena Thakur made a similar claim.
Instigating Hindus against Muslims, a user named Giriraj Sharma also promoted the video and accompanied the claim.
The video is doing round on social media with the same claim.
However, when AltNews did the fact check it found that the video is of the fight between two Hindu brothers due to property dispute.
The report with reference to articles published by NDTV and The Lallantop claimed that a fight broke out between two brothers Prempal and Shyamlal due to a property dispute in Sonia Vihar, New Delhi.
SI Amit Kumar of the Sonia Vihar Police Station also confirmed that there was no communal angle to the incident, and there were no Muslims involved. He further revealed that both parties had also filed cases against each other following the clash.
Thus it was disclosed that a video of a violent fight between two brothers over a property dispute was falsely circulated with a communal spin.
