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Old video falsely portrayed as showing deadly India mosque survey clashes in 2024

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Summary
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Clashes erupted in November 2024 in Sambhal city in northern Uttar Pradesh state sparked by a survey into whether a centuries-old mosque was built on a Hindu temple.

But footage circulating online of police officers beating men wearing Muslim caps is unrelated to the recent clashes.

The clip was filmed in a district hundreds of kilometres (miles) away from the city and corresponds to videos published in 2019 news reports about a controversial citizenship law.

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formal

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English

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57

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possibly offensive

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