A video goes viral on social media, it claims to show a Hindu woman bleeding from the face. The post claims she was a successful businesswoman in Bangladesh with Muslim tenants. The post also claims that a group of 35 radicals forcibly took over her house and raped her. Let’s check the truth behind the video in this article.

The archived post can be found Here.

Claim: The video shows a Hindu woman who was allegedly raped by some Muslims in Bangladesh and took over her house.

Fact: The woman in the video is ‘Kohinoor Akhtar’, a member of the Bangladesh Krishak League affiliated to the Bangladesh Awami League led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. She is a Muslim woman. On November 10, 2024, she participated in a protest where she was attacked. The viral images are from that incident. There is no truth to the claim that she was raped. Therefore, the claim made in the post is FALSE.

A reverse image search of key frames from the viral video led us to a YouTube video (archived link) from November 11, 2024, with a similar clip. The caption of the video identifies the woman in the footage as Kohinoor Begum, a member of the Bangladesh Krishak League.

Taking a cue from the description, a Google keyword search led to a video (archived link) on the Krishak League Facebook page. According to the post, the woman in the video is Kohinoor, a member of the Bangladesh Krishak League. The post claimed that she was attacked by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) during an event organized on November 10, 2024 to commemorate Shaheed Noor Hussain Day. Bangladesh Krishak League also claimed in the post that she was arrested.

The post was also tagged Kohinur Akther’s Facebook account. Upon examination of her profile, it is confirmed that she is the woman seen in the viral video. Her account contains several photos in which she wears a burqa or hijab (Here, Hereand Here).

Some of the photos he uploaded show posters of Krishak League in Bangladesh (Here, Hereand Here). One of the photographs (archived link) also includes a card attesting that it is a member of the Krishak League of Bangladesh. Based on this evidence, it is clear (archived link) that she is not a Hindu but a Muslim and a member of the Bangladesh Krishak League.

I also found one video (archived link) captured from a different angle of the same incident featured in the viral video. In this film, we can see her being escorted by female police officers, some of them chasing after her and shouting. The video reveals that the incident took place on “Bangabandhu Avenue” in Dhaka city.

Another keyword search reveals that on November 10, 2024, near the Awami League Party office on Bangabandhu Boulevard in Dhaka, party workers staged a program (protest rally) (archived link) to mark ‘Noor Hussain Divas’ (Here, Hereand Here).

At that time, some BNP party workers and leaders attacked the Awami League workers who had gathered there (Here, Hereand Here). During the incident several Awami League workers were adetained by the police. (archived link)

According to the news, they beat everyone, regardless of gender and handed them over to the police (Here, Hereand Here). The shop where the protest took place were same the ones where the woman seen in the viral video was picked up by the police (Here).

The incident went viral video posted by the Bangladesh Krishak League on their Facebook page implicates Kohinoor Akhtar who was attacked (Here and Here) during the protest rally organized by the Awami League on 10 November 2024. This confirms that the woman seen in the video is not Hindu and was not raped.

In addition, the fact-checking organization of Bangladesh “Rumor scanner‘(archived link) published an article clarifying that the woman in the video is not Hindu and was not raped, contrary to the claims made in the viral post. According to them, the Dhaka police reported the arrest of around 33 leaders and activists during the Awami League rally on 10 November 2024, but there was no evidence of rape in the incident.

To summarize, the video of an attack on an Awami League member is being falsely shared as footage of a Hindu woman being sexually assaulted by Muslims in Bangladesh.

(This story was originally published by Actuallyand republished by NDTV as part of Shakti Collective)