Man Heckled in MP as Child Lifting Rumours Go Viral Again

An official in the Mandideep police station told The Quint that the man seen in the video is mentally challenged.

A video of a man alleged to have kidnapped children is viral with a false narrative.

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CLAIM

A viral video circulating on social media claims that a man allegedly by the name of ‘Shamsher’ has kidnapped children. The video shows a group of people questioning the man about details of the number of children he has kidnapped, the amount of money he gets to do the same, who his boss is and where he kidnapped the children from.

The video shared by a Facebook user ‘Roshan Raturi RR’ had received an engagement of over 42,000 views and was shared over 1,100 times till the time this article was written.

Several social media users shared the video on Facebook with a similar claim.

The Quint received a query about the claims made in the video via its Whatsapp helpline.

WHAT’S THE TRUTH?

On listening to the video carefully, we could hear a man saying ‘yeh simrahi mein pakda gaya hai’ (Translation: he was caught in Simrahi). Madhya Pradesh’s Simrahi village comes under the jurisdiction of Mandideep police station.

An official in the Mandideep police station told The Quint that the incident took place around 15 days ago and that the man seen in the video is mentally challenged.

“This man had not kidnapped any child. After we reached the spot and identified that he is mentally challenged, we admitted him to the hospital. No FIR was filed. We couldn’t confirm the man’s name as he couldn’t answer properly. Even the public understood that he is mentally challenged.”

An official in the Mandideep police station

Some people shot the entire incident and spread fake claims about the same, he added.

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