A video of a few persons holding on to the windows and pipes of a building is making rounds on social media. A few can be seen falling off the building while trying to scale it down to escape from a group of attackers. It is claimed that the visuals show Hindu students in Dhaka being attacked by Jamat-e-Islami, a political party in Bangladesh. Some users are claiming this is an incident showing an attack on a Hindu hostel by the Jamaat-e-Islami. This video is being shared in the context of the ongoing anti-quota protests in Bangladesh. We fact-check this claim through this article.
Claim: Viral video shows Hindu students being attacked by the Jamaat-e-Islami activists in Dhaka.
Fact: As per the news reports from Bangladeshi media, the visuals show anti-quota protestors allegedly throwing the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) workers off a building in Chittagong’s Muradpur. None of the news reports on this incident mentioned …