Video of a woman being attacked inside a lift in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia is being shared by several users on social media with a claim that it is from Delhi.
CLAIM
The video has also been the official Twitter handle of Delhi Youth Congress who trained their guns at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising questions on women safety in the national capital.
Some people shared the video identifying it to be from Hyderabad. One of the other claims read, “Viral video Ladies are requested not to get into metro station lifts alone. Take care. Hyderabad metro (sic).”
WHAT WE FOUND
We fragmented the video into multiple keyframes and followed it up with a reverse image search using the Yandex search engine. This led us to several reports which suggested that the video is of an incident from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
One such report by Singaporean daily The Straits Times carried screen grabs from the said CCTV footage.
According to the report, dated 16 February 2019, “a robber assaulted a woman inside an MRT station's lift in the Kuala Lumpur district of Cheras.”
Another report by Asia Times stated that the incident lasted about 56 seconds and was captured by a surveillance camera.
Evidently, a 2019 incident from Kuala Lumpur has resurfaced on social media with claims that it is from Hyderabad or Delhi.
(Update: The story has been updated to add Delhi Youth Congress’ tweet which falsely claimed that the video is from Delhi.)
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