Fact Check: Viral Video Of Police Beating A Man And Aligarh Murder Not Linked, Claims Are False

New Delhi (Vishvas News). A reel combining two different videos is going viral on Instagram. In the first video, bike riders can be seen shooting a man with a gun, while in the second video, some police officers are seen beating a man with sticks.

Sharing these videos, social media users are claiming that the first video shows a Muslim man being shot dead and the second video shows the police beating the accused in the same case. Users are claiming that both videos are from the same incident.

Vishvas News, in its investigation, found that both videos depict separate incidents. The first video is from Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, where a man was shot. The second video is from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, showing police publicly beating the alleged miscreants before Holi. There is no connection between the two incidents, and the viral claim linking them is false.

What is in the viral post?

Instagram user ‘Khan Ahmed Ji’ shared the viral post on March 16, with the caption, “Allah bhai ko Jannat ata kare.”

See the archived version of the post here.

Investigation

The viral reel combines two different videos, so we investigated both videos separately.

First video

We extracted the key frames from the first video and searched them using Google Lens. This led us to a video uploaded on the YouTube channel of Times Now, which stated, that the incident took place in Aligarh, where some bike riders shot and killed a person.

Based on this, we searched for the news and found a report on Dainik Jagran’s website on March 15. According to the report, “A case of a bullet attack on a person named Harris came to light in Aligarh. Harris was standing outside his house during Sehri, when suddenly two motorcycle riders reached there and attacked him. Harris died in the attack.

Meanwhile, the police say that the attack on Harris is probably the result of enmity, but other aspects are also being investigated.”

In a March 16 report by The Indian Express, “The police was quoted as saying that no arrests have been made so far and efforts are on to identify the criminals by examining the available CCTV footage.”

To verify the viral video, we contacted Surjeet, senior correspondent at Dainik Jagran in Aligarh, who confirmed that no arrests have been made in this case so far and the police investigation is still ongoing

Second video

We conducted a Google Lens search using keyframes from the second viral video. This led us to a news report on the Livemint website, uploaded on March 15, 2025, which stated: “Gujarat police beat up goons for allegedly attacking commuters and vandalising vehicles with sticks and swords in Ahmedabad’s Vastral area on Thursday..”

A report by News 24 Online also stated, “A day before Holi in Gujarat, the goons of the Bhavsar gang broke the law and order in Ahmedabad and created a ruckus on the streets and attacked the passengers with sticks and swords. Along with this, many vehicles running on the road were vandalized. A video of this incident surfaced, after which the Ahmedabad Police came into action. Now the police have caught these goons and are beating them fiercely. The police shared this video of the beating of the goons on social media.” 

Next, we conducted a social media scan of the Instagram user ‘Khan Ahmed Ji’ who shared the fake post and found that the user has 218 followers.

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Conclusion: Vishvas News’ investigation revealed that both videos depict different incidents. The first video is from Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, where a man was shot dead. The second video is from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, showing police publicly beating up the alleged miscreants before Holi. The viral claim is falsely linking two unrelated events.

Tags

• Aligarh murder
• Muslim
• Police Beating