Clip Shows Muslim Woman Wanting To Marry Father-In-Law? No, It’s Scripted!

We found that the video was shared on a YouTube channel that regularly posts such scripted videos.

Fact-Check | The video is scripted and does not show a real incident.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

A video showing a burqa-clad woman sitting next to a man wearing a skull cap is being shared on the internet to claim that it shows the woman asking to marry her father-in-law after getting divorced from her husband.

What did users say?: Those sharing the clip have captioned it saying, "This is a tragic case of an empowered wife. A 22yr old wife, after being divorced in anger by her husband, did Halala with her 60yr old father-in-law to remarry her husband...(sic)"

An archive of the post can be found here.

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(You can view archives of similar such claims here, here, and here.)

What is the truth?: The video is actually scripted and was created for "entertainment purposes". It was posted by a YouTuber named 'Ashwani Pandey', who regularly shares such videos on their channel.

How did we find that out?: We conducted a reverse image search on the keyframes of the viral clip and found a longer version of the viral clip shared on an Instagram handle named 'katter_hindu348'.

• The video carried a disclaimer, which said that the video was made for "entertainment purposes".

• It also carried a name of one 'Ashawani Pandey'.

Finding the original video: On searching for 'Ashawani Pandey' on YouTube, we found a channel with the same name.

• It was shared on 28 April with a caption that said, "You're good."

• At around the 0:06 timestamp, we found a disclaimer that said the video was purely made "for entertainment purposes only".

The video carried a disclaimer.

(Source: YouTube/Screenshot/Altered by The Quint)

Actors in the viral clip: Team WebQoof found that the channel keeps sharing similar scripted videos, which one can view here and here. We found that the same actor seen in the viral clip was seen in other YouTube videos as well.

The man seen in the viral video was also spotted in other clips.

(Source: YouTube/Screenshot/Altered by The Quint)

Conclusion: The video is scripted and does not show a real incident as claimed in the viral post.

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