A video showing two young men being lynched, circulated on social media, fanned violence against Muslims in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar in 2013. The police said it had been recorded at least two years earlier and had no connection to the riots.
This year, post the Ram Navami tensions in West Bengal, another video was viral – it showed an old, blind Muslim couple being humiliated, heckled and asked to chant Jai Shri Ram allegedly by a group of right-wingers.
