2019 Video Of Police Tackling CAA Protestors in Gorakhpur Linked to Recent Sambhal Violence

The Quint has previously debunked this video in 2021 and 2022, when it was being shared as one from Jammu and Kashmir and Kanpur, respectively.

What happened in Sambhal?: Five Muslim men were killed in the shooting that occurred in Sambhal after the community protested a survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid, which a civil court ordered in response to a petition saying the mosque was once the location of the Harihar temple.

• Over 2,500 unidentified individuals, with at least 500 of them being minors, have been identified in the FIR and accused of serious offenses.

• Sambhal’s Member of Parliament from the Samajwadi Party (SP), Zia ur Rahman Barq, has been mentioned in a complaint filed at Ekta Chowki police station. Sohail Iqbal, the son of Sambhal MLA and SP leader Iqbal Mehmood, has also been listed in the FIR.

• Both leaders are facing allegations of provoking violence, reported The Quint.