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    Detect: Video of attack on woman has no communal angle

    The footage shows a group of young men thrashing the woman with sticks on the banks of the water body.

    Detect: Video of attack on woman has no communal angle
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    Screen grab from the video of attack on woman

    NEW DELHI: A purported video of a Dalit woman being beaten up for bathing in a river has gone viral. The footage shows a group of young men thrashing the woman with sticks on the banks of the water body.

    A netizen tweeted this video saying, “This is Modi’s India, where Hindu extremists can beat a poor Dalit woman, and record it for all to see!” Alt News found it was a two-year-old incident from Madhya Pradesh. Both the victim and the accused are members of the same family, and there is no communal angle to the episode.

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