No, This Video Doesn’t Show Indian Army Walking Out of Meeting Over Funding

The video dats back to March 2025, and shows a reporter questioning the Army in the Colonel Bath assault case.

An old video of a journalist questioning Army and police personnel over the handling of an Army man's assault case is being shared with false claims.

(Source: X//Altered by The Quint)

A video showing Indian Army personnel walking out of a meeting while a person asks them what the Army was afraid of is being widely shared on social media.

The claim: The video is being shared to claim that Indian Army personnel walked out of a meeting after being denied funding the "they needed it to face the challenge from Pakistan and China."

An archived version of this post can be seen here.

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(Archived versions of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here and here.)

Is it true?: No, the claim is false.

• The viral video dates back to March 2025 and shows a journalist criticising the Army's representatives in connection to the Colonel Bath assault case.

How did we find out the truth?: We ran a reverse image search on the video which led us to a post by former Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia on 25 March 2025.

• In the post, he thanked journalist Man Aman Singh Chhina "persistently asking questions to ensure justice for Col Pushpinder Singh Baath and his family (sic)."

• A keyword search based on this clip, on Chhina's X account, led us to the same clip shared on 25 March 2025.

• He said that he Chief of Staff Western Command Lieutenant General Mohit Wadhwa had left a press conference after "reading out a statement on the Patiala Colonel without taking any questions."

• Chhina added that while the Director General of Police of Patiala had also read a statement and left, "at least he has answered questions of media in recent days."

One can hear the same questions at the 03:28-minute mark in the video of the press conference, which was shared on the Government of Punjab's YouTube channel on 25 March 2025.

About the Colonel Bath case: Colonel Pushpinder Bath and his son Angad, were assaulted over a parking dispute on the intervening night between 13 and 14 March, in Patiala, Punjab,

• The colonel accused 12 Punjab Police personnel of assaulting the two of them after which all 12 of them were placed under suspension, as per NDTV.

• His case was initially handled by the Punjab police and was later transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

• In March 2026, four accused were granted bail, while the prosecution opposed it as the family feared intimidation, Hindustan Times reported.

The Quint had previously debunked a claim related to this video in April 2025, when it was falsely being linked to the Pahalgam terror attack.

Conclusion: An old video of a journalist questioning Army and police personnel over the handling of an Army man's assault case is being shared with false claims

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