Old Clip Showing People Damaging Railway Tracks Revived With Communal Spin

This video dates back to 2022 in Bihar during the NTPC student protests.

Fact-Check: We were able to trace this video to January 2022 from Bihar during the students protest against the RRB-NTPC examinations. 

(Source: The Quint) 

A video showing a man attempting to destroy a railway track is being shared as a recent instance with a communal undertone.

Right-wing social media users wrote, "Muslims have the first right on the resources of the country, hence they have the first right on the losses too." (sic.)

An archive of the post can be found here.

(Source: The Quint) 

(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.) We also received a query about this on our WhatsApp tipline.

Is the claim true?: No, the claim is misleading.

• We were able to trace this video back to 2022 from Bihar.

• It happened during the student protests related to the Railway Recruitment Board's (RRB) recruitment process for Non-Technical Popular Categories (NTPC).

What we found: We divided this video into multiple screenshots and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.

• We came across the same video on X by news channel News18 Bihar from 27 January 2022. It was uploaded with the caption, "See how the protesting students are breaking the sleeper locks of the railway track. This video of Sitamarhi is going viral." (sic.)

• Similarly, we found the video on News18 Bihar Jharkhand's YouTube channel. It was also uploaded in January 2022.

• This instance happened during the RRB NTPC student protests in Sitamarhi, Bihar.

• The religion of the protestors was no identified in any of the posts.

• Reports in The Quint and NDTV, Bihar witnessed violent protests by job aspirants over the RRB-NTPC examination.

• The candidates opposed the decision to conduct the exam in two stages, arguing that the second stage was unfair to those who had cleared the first.

Conclusion: We were able to trace this video back to 2022 from Bihar. It is being falsely shared as recent with a communal spin.

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