The video of the experimental burglary was shot in Pakistan, not in India

An old video of a mob that rises to a residential building was wrong online as Muslims who try to attack Hindus in her houses in the Indian state of Telangana. The actual film material was shot in Pakistan in August 2022.

“This scene does not come from Afghanistan or Pakistan, but from Telangana. They enter the houses of the Hindus with slogans such as” Cut Off The Heads “, according to the Hindi languages ​​shared on March 1, 2025 X.

It also communicates a clip in which several people climb up a building while others beat at the front door.

Screen grave of the wrong contribution on March 1, 2025

The video was shared with similar claims on X and Facebook.

The Indian congress party displaced by the followers of the ruling Hindu nationalists Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to be the 200 million Muslim minority of the country compared to the national elections in 2023.

Some users seemed to believe that the video was recorded in the state, and called Muslims “jihadis”-a derogatory pejorative, which was often used by hardliners in India in Hindu majority to refer to the community.

“Jihadis started in the congress supply states. Interior Minister, this is a wake-up call,” commented one user and marked X-Handles from the high-ranking BJP leader, including the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Another user wrote: “Wherever the congress in power is, these jihadists are all possible anti-Hindu activities.”

However, a reverse image search for Keyframes found a longer version of the video, which was shared on August 25, 2022 in an X contribution, with a caption that was filmed in Pakistan (Archived Link).

“A Hindu Sanitary Assistant #ashokkumar is persecuted in the Rabia Center, Sadar, Hyderabad of Pakistan, in a wrong case of blasphemy,” says the post office.

In the US Commission for International Religious Freedom, Kumar's case was also described in his list of religious or faith victims.

Kumar was accused on the website, burned a Koran and arrested on August 21, 2022 by the Hyderabad police in Pakistan. A mob then tried to enter his house to get it (archived link).

Links to a video published on X shows the scene in the wrong clip from a different angle (archived link).

The Hyderabad police later found him innocent and opened him how he emerged on the Facebook page of the armed forces (archived link) on August 31, 2022.