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By Srijit Das An old video of a bike rally in Odisha turning violent is being peddled with a false and communal claim that it shows an attack on Hindutva supporters for carrying out a bike rally with saffron flags in West Bengal. BOOM found that the video is from 2023 when a clash took place in Odisha's Sambalpur district during Hanuman Jayanti celebrations. The 21-second footage shows several motorcycles fitted with saffron flags parked along a road, with a few individuals seen hurling stones at each other. A verified X handle, @Sudhir_mish, shared the video with a Hindi caption that reads, "...
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By Jagriti Trisha A video purporting to show a group of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders being thrashed by the public while campaigning is viral online as a recent incident from Tamil Nadu. BOOM found that the incident took place in Odisha and shows a clash between two groups of BJP leaders in October 2023. The video shows a group of people campaigning on a platform when one man is dragged below and thrashed by the group. His kurta is ripped apart by the group who continue to beat him. A caption on X reads, "Recent incident from Tamil Nadu- BJP, RSS' antinational politicians were dragged f...
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By Hazel Gandhi The video of a Congress MLA vigorously shaking hands with a woman while also blowing flying kisses is being shared with the misleading claim that he welcomed a new female member in the party inappropriately. BOOM found that the claims are misleading; the video shows Odisha Congress MLA Taraprasad Bahinipati welcoming party member, Meenakshi Bahinipati who is also his wife. The 30-second video shows the MLA felicitating the woman and trying to shake her hand, while she joins her hands. He then forcefully shakes her hand and ends with multiple flying kisses around the room. The v...
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By Srijit Das An old video of a mob attacking a car with sticks has recently been shared with a false claim that it shows a BJP MLA and his supporters got beaten for asking votes in the name of religion in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh. BOOM found that the clip is old and from Odisha’s Khurda district. It shows an incident when a suspended BJD MLA rammed his car into a large gathering in March 2022. In the video, a mob attacks a white SUV with sticks in the presence of a few policemen. Later the mob also thrashes a person pinning him the ground as the car drives through the crowd. The video is bei...
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By Srijit Das An old drone footage of derailed train bogies is viral with a false claim that the video shows a rail accident that happened on August 6, 2023 in Pakkistan's Sindh province area Nawabshah. BOOM found that the video shows the aftermath of a major collision between three trains happened on June 2, 2023 in Odisha's Balasore district. At least 30 people reportedly lost their lives after a passenger train derailed on August 6 in southern Pakistan. Ten cars of the passenger train Hazara Express went off the tracks while going towards Rawalpindi, reported Associated Press. The report al...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar A disturbing video showing a man who is naked and whose hands are bound behind his back being assaulted with a paddle is being shared with a false claim that it shows the station master of Balasore in Odisha being interrogated after he fled and was caught following the deadly train accident. The video shows a man naked lying face down, with his hands tied behind his back; being continuously beaten with a wooden paddle even as he cries in pain. Along with the video is an inset photo of a uniformed Indian railways station master in a control room. Both are being shared ...
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By Anmol Alphonso An old video from 2018 showing a young boy caught by railway gangmen for placing stones on a railway track near Kalaburagi in Karnataka is being shared with a false claim that it is recent after the tragic train accident in Odisha's Balasore. BOOM spoke to Wadi Railway Police under whose jurisdiction the incident occurred, who stated that the viral video is from 2018 and the young boy was playing with stones near the railway tracks near Kalaburagi. On June 2, 2023, the Shalimar Chennai Coromandel Express (12841) en route Chennai from Shalimar, West Bengal, met with an acciden...
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By Sk Badiruddin Social media posts trying to communalise the tragic train accident in Odisha's Balasore region have falsely claimed that the Station Master at Bahanaga Bazar station is a Muslim and fled the accident site. The posts also falsely claim that the station master is one Sharif Ali. BOOM reached out to Aditya Kumar Chaudhary, Chief Public Relations Officer, South Eastern Railway, who confirmed to us that the assistant Station Master of Bahanaga Bazar is SB Mohanty and not 'Sharif Ali', as claimed on social media platforms. Further, Chaudhary also confirmed that Mohanty did not flee ...
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By Srijit Das An old CCTV footage of a train accident from Hyderabad has recently been shared with a false claim that it shows visuals of the horrific triple train collision that took place in Odisha's Balasore district on June 2. BOOM found that the video shows a collision between two trains near Hyderabad's Kacheguda Railway Station; the incident happened on November 11, 2019. More than 280 people lost their lives on June 2 evening in a devastating train accident involving two passenger trains and a goods train near Odisha's Bahanaga Bazar station. The clash, as per preliminary reports, happ...
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By BOOM Team A Russian businessman and lawmaker, and his friend died at a hotel in Odisha within a span of two days. The duo were staying at a hotel in Rayagada district where Vladimir Bidenov, 61, was found dead in his room on December 22, PTI reported. His friend Pavel Antov, a lawmaker and business tycoon died on December 24 after allegedly falling from the third floor of the hotel building. Antov was reportedly a critic of Russia's attack on Ukraine, a claim that he had denied. Odisha police superintendent Vivekananda Sharma said Budanov died after suffering a stroke, while Antov, 65, was ...
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