Fact Check: Video of a girl being killed in the middle of the road is going viral with a false claim, know the truth

A video is going viral on social media in which a young man is standing near the dead body of a young woman. In the video, the young man brutally beats the woman to death. This disturbing video of the murder is being shared with the false and communal claim that a Muslim man named Salim killed a Hindu girl named Aarti.

This claim was being widely circulated on social media. So we decided to investigate this claim. First of all, we searched about it with the help of Google Open Search and found that this claim is false because the accused named Rohit and the victim named Aarti are both Hindus. This one minute 24 second video has been recorded by the people standing there. In this, the accused is standing near the dead body of a woman lying in the middle of the road holding a spanner in his left hand. The people standing there see it, but do not intervene.

The viral video has been shared with a Hindi caption that reads, "Salim proposed to Aarti, but Aarti refused. After this, Salim murdered Aarti openly on the road and stood quietly near the dead body. No one had the courage to say anything to him." We found several news reports reporting a broad daylight murder, stating that the accused Rohit killed his ex-girlfriend Aarti on June 18, 2024, at around 8:30 am in the Chinchpada area of ​​Vasai East, Palghar, Maharashtra.

What came out in the fact check?

India Tv’s fact check has revealed that the accused Rohit had killed his ex-girlfriend Aarti in Chinchpada area of ​​Vasai East in Palghar, Maharashtra. The viral claim on social media is false. Therefore, people are advised to be cautious of any such post.