Fact Check: Nepal’s Pashupatinath Temple Not Attacked, Old Festival Video Viral With Fake Claim
Vishvas News found in its investigation that the viral claim is fake. This video is from a crowd gathered during a festival at Nepal’s Pashupatinath Temple in March 2025. The video is being shared with a false claim, linking it to the Gen-Z protests in Nepal.
- By: Umam Noor
- Published: Sep 17, 2025 at 01:09 PM
New Delhi (Vishvas News). A video showing a large crowd of people climbing the gates of Nepal’s Pashupatinath Temple is being shared on social media with the claim that Gen-Z protesters attacked the Temple.
Vishvas News found in its investigation that the viral claim is fake. This video is from a festival when a large crowd gathered at Nepal’s Pashupatinath Temple in March 2025
What is in the viral post?
Facebook page ‘Apna Pradesh News Network’ shared the viral post on September 10, with the caption, “If the anger is with the government, then why target the Pashupatinath Temple? This temple is not just bricks and stones, but a symbol of the faith and identity of the entire Hindu society. Protest against the government is understandable, but an attempt to break the temple doors? Where is the real anger? And why hurt the temple? #NepalRiots #AttackonPashupatinathmandir.”
View the archived version of the post here.
Investigation
Upon searching the keyframes of the viral video on Google Lens, we found this clip posted by a social media user named Rahul Jha with the same claim on September 10, 2025. Commenting on the video, a user called it fake and also shared a screenshot. According to the screenshot, the Pashupatinath Temple Committee said, “The video, showing Pashupatinath Temple, is old and the temple premises are safe and normal.”
Further investigation led us to a Facebook page named “Hamro jatra,” which had uploaded the video on July 14, 2025. According to the video’s description, it was from a Shobhayatra (procession) at the Pashupati Temple. We found another video from the same event on a Facebook page named “Jatra Bewastapan Samati,” uploaded on March 21, 2025, which stated that the video was from the “Ghode Jatra” (festival).
For confirmation, we contacted Shyam Tha, the admin of the page ‘Hamro jatra’ that shared the original video. He told us that he is a journalist and this video is from a festival held at the Pashupatinath Temple.
It was now time to conduct a social scan of the Facebook page ‘Apna Pradesh News Network’ that shared the fake post. We found that the page is followed by 525 people.
Conclusion: Vishvas News found in its investigation that the viral claim is fake. This video is from a crowd gathered during a festival at Nepal’s Pashupatinath Temple in March 2025. The video is being shared with a false claim, linking it to the Gen-Z protests in Nepal.
- Claim Review : Gen-Z protesters attack Nepal's Pashupatinath Temple
- Claimed By : Facebook page ‘Apna Pradesh News Network’
- Fact Check : False
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