The claim
The viral video showing two Muslim policemen beating a person for saying “Jai Hanuman” is linked to recent communal incidents in West Bengal during Hanuman Jayanti.
Original review summary
The review says the video is unrelated to recent communal incidents in West Bengal and had circulated online since 2014. It reports that the West Bengal CID debunked the video and that a person was arrested in 2017 for spreading it with a false communal claim.[S1]
Additional context
The review says the same clip was uploaded to YouTube on 30 September 2014, and the CID posted about the arrest on 12 July 2017. [S1]
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Sources and attribution
- [S1] FACTLY original review
Original review · Retrieved October 16, 2026