An unrelated video showing civilians attack a suspect while in police custody has gone infective agent on WhatsApp and social media with the false context that the person within the video is one amongst the suspects in Jammu’s Kathua alleged gang rape and murder case.

The video shows a person, believed to be associate suspect, flanked by four police personnel walking down a street. The video then shows an individual from the group approaching the person and smearing his face with gasoline followed by 3 ladies touching the person with their footwear. The women’s faces square measure coated with scarves.

The video has gone infective agent on WhatsApp teams, Facebook and YouTube, attended with the message that it's a video of 1 of the suspect within the high-profile Kathua case wherever associate eight year recent lady was allegedly command captive, drugged, gang raped and dead.

BOOM has redacted the name of the deceased victim within the photos below in accordance with Indian law that needs a sex offense victim’s identity shouldn't be created public.

A variation of the faux post claims that the person within the video is one ‘Mohammed Illias.’ The text incidental it reads as follows “This is that the person prophet illias UN agency dead eight year recent (victim’s name) and threw her body into the temple to bring dangerous name to BJP & RSS currently in police custody”

BOOM reached resolute Advocate Deepika Singh Rajawat UN agency is that the counsel representing the family of the Kathua victim. Rajawat known as the video a faux and value-added that the suspect were being command beneath high security.

It is vital to notice that no thought or credible news outlet has airy this video occupation the person seen in it in concert of the suspect within the Kathua case and it exists solely on social media.

BOOM conjointly bust down the video and analyzed it frame-by-frame. we have a tendency to were able to trace the video through a reverse image search to a web site known as News Nation. The video was uploaded on Apr five, 2018 with the text that aforesaid faculty ladies attacked a youth suspect of raping a 13-year recent in Uttar Pradesh’s Itawa (also Triticum aestivum spelta as Etawah). (Click here to look at the video on News Nation’s web site and here to look at it on their YouTube channel)

However, once BOOM examined the video on News Nation’s web site we have a tendency to were able to browse the amount plate on a police vehicle visible within the video. the amount plate reads ‘MP 02 (digit not clearly visible) 431’ indicating that the incident may well be from Madhya Pradesh and not state.

We conjointly noticed that the sign within the background reads as ‘Aarakshi Kendra Hanuman (Nagar or Garh) in Devnagri script.

BOOM is reaching resolute police in Madhya Pradesh to determine a lot of details concerning the video . we'll update our story upon receiving a response.
However, we are able to say with cheap certainty that it not associated with the case in Kathua as long as the video was uploaded by News Nation every week before it went infective agent and also the presence of ‘MP’ on the vehicle. this can be substantiated by the Kathu case professional person Deepika Singh Rajawat UN agency has conjointly known as the video, fake.