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