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The claim

Gujarat police caned stone-pelters on Holi

Original publisher’s rating

Misleading

Reviewed by ThePrint ↗ ·

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Original review summary

The review identifies the video as showing police punishment after violence in Ahmedabad’s Vastral area, not an incident during Holi. It reports that the violence stemmed from a personal dispute and that the footage showed people being publicly punished by police.[S1]

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Sources and attribution

  1. [S1] ThePrint original review

    Original review · Retrieved October 16, 2026

Original review: ThePrint. Structured data compiled by Data Commons under CC BY 4.0. Publisher article content is subject to its own terms. Summaries and context are produced by PeakMetrics with AI assistance.

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