Unrelated Video From Rajasthan Falsely Shared As Prayagraj Police Humiliating Bhim Army Supporters Arrested For Rioting

Claim

The Prayagraj police parade supporters of Nagina MP and Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad with their heads shaved after they were arrested for vandalism.

The archived version of the post can be seen here, which has clocked 407.9K views so far. A mob reportedly vandalised police vehicles in Prayagraj’s Karchhana on June 29 after they came to know that Chandrashekhar Azad was detained as he was not allowed to visit the family of a person who was murdered on April 13.

Fact

Newschecker ran a reverse image search of the keyframes of the viral video, which led us to another video featuring the same men, uploaded on Instagram on June 2, 2025. “12 criminals arrested while planning to loot a petrol pump in Baraan district. Baraan police took out procession…,” read the Hindi post.

We can clearly see, “Police Chowki Bhimganj Ward Pratap Chowki Baran”, written on the signboard in the video. .

Taking a cue, we then ran a relevant keyword search, which led us to this NDTV Rajasthan report, dated June 3, 2025. According to the report, the police in Baran, Rajasthan, had arrested 12 miscreants who were planning to loot two petrol pumps, following which the accused’s heads were first shaved and then they were paraded throughout the city, while being forced to apologise to the residents with folded hands.

We also came across this detailed report in Dainik Bhaskar’s e-paper, dated June 2, 2025. According to the report, it was told that the Kishanganj and Anta police in Baran had caught 12 people who were planning to rob a petrol pump. Kishanganj police had arrested five accused — Itihas Ali, Aashiq Ali, Mohammad Khalid, Shahrukh and Raju Nayak, while the Anta police arrested seven accused — Deepak, Lekhraj, Rohit, Sonu, Shailendra, Lalit and Bablu. Weapons were also reportedly recovered from all of them. The Baran Police posted on X about the five and seven arrests related to the robbery attempts on petrol pumps on June 1, 2025.

Moreover, the Prayagraj Police Commissionerate on July 3, 2025 responded to a viral post sharing the false claim, clarifying that the visuals were not from Prayagraj but from Baran, Rajasthan.

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Sources
Instagram post, June 2, 2025
NDTV report, June 3, 2025
X post, Prayagraj Police, July 3, 2025