A video, around 37 seconds long, is viral on social media. It shows three youths bound with ropes being assaulted by a man carrying a cane. Police personnel can be seen present at the scene, as the three young men are paraded down the street.
Several users have amplified this clip, claiming that the three young men — all of them Muslims — were supposedly apprehended and beaten up for harassing schoolgirls.
X user @HindutvaDon_ posted the clip on X. The post amassed more than 50,000 views and close to 1,000 re-shares at the time of this article being written. He claimed the three were Mohammad Arif, Asraf Ali and Asif Khan. (Archive)
X user @MeghUpdates, who frequently shares communal misinformation, posted the clip with the same claim — that the three perpetrators were Muslims. (Archive)
Arif, Ashraf, and Asif used to harass and evetease girls outside a college. They were caught by Police, tied with ropes, publicly paraded on the street, and serviced with lathis; Video of the swift action is now going viral. pic.twitter.com/F4mDBpqx8W
— Megh Updates
(@MeghUpdates) June 12, 2026
X user (@RealBababanaras) had uploaded this clip, back on May 26, with a similar claim. (Archive)
Meet Mohammad Sameer, Mohammad Nadeem & Mohammad Asif Ali.
Their primary job was harassing the girl students outside the college.
They had made the lives of the girls going to and from school a living hell.
But the police did great job
What punishment should be given to them pic.twitter.com/hbfotK8hzq
— Baba Banaras
Readers should note that Baba Banaras, too, has been found sharing communal misinformation several times in the past.
Several other users, including @Sudhir_mish, @SouleFacts and @ocjain4 also circulated the claims. Archives: 1, 2, 3
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To investigate the veracity of the claims surrounding this viral video, we broke it down into keyframes. A reverse image search on one such keyframe led us to this X post, made by user @IacHead, on April 17.
#उज्जैन में रात के समय कुछ लोगों ने गुंडागर्दी करते हुए मकानों और गाड़ियों पर पथराव किया, जिससे कई गाड़ियों और खिड़कियों को नुकसान पहुंचा।पुलिस ने कार्रवाई करते हुए तीन आरोपियों किशन, विकास और रमेश को गिरफ्तार कर लिया। साथ ही, उन्हें उसी स्थान पर ले जाया गया जहां उन्होंने यह… pic.twitter.com/GYcFQK9OXF
— INDIA APRADH CONTROL NEWS . अख़बार (@IacHead) April 17, 2026
It is the same video as the one that went viral recently. The caption, however, contradicts the claims, identifying the three accused as Kishan, Vikas, and Ramesh. It is said that they had been beaten up for vandalising houses and windows in the neighbourhood at night.
Taking cue from the caption of this X post, we ran a relevant keyword search on Google. This led us to an article by Dainik Bhaskar, published on April 16, which reports on the incident.
According to the report, late into the night on April 16, some 10-12 miscreants, armed with sticks, knives and swords, pelted stones to vandalise houses windows and vehicles in the Dhanda Bhavan area of Ujjain, in Madhya Pradesh. Police arrested three individuals and paraded them in the area. The report also mentions the name of the three accused who appear in the viral video: Kishan Ahirwar, Vikas Saroniya, and Vishal.
Another report, by Navbharat Times, elucidates that the dispute had broken over something as trivial as a refusal to offer a car wash. The complainant, one Sheran Ali, had declined a car wash to the miscreants, citing time constraint. This resulted in a violent retaliation, culminating in the vandalism of vehicles and house windows late at night.
In conclusion, the viral video, which several users have claimed shows three Muslim youths accused of harassing schoolgirls, actually shows three miscreants in Ujjain who vandalised private property, in April 2026. They are not Muslims. Their names are Kishan Ahirwar, Vikas Saroniya, and Vishal.
This content originally appeared on Alt News and was authored by Prantik Ali.