Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Azad was not attacked; the video features a different person

Recently, a video has been circulated on social media claiming that the Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary, Abul Kalam Azad Majumdar, was attacked.

See videos circulated on Facebook with this claim: here, here.

See the same video on Instagram, X.

See posts from Indian accounts with the same claim on X.

See reports from Indian media with the same claim: News Bartaman (YouTube), Kolkata 24*7.

Fact Check

The Rumor Scanner Team’s investigation found that the claim that the Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary, Abul Kalam Azad Majumdar, was attacked is incorrect. In fact, a video featuring a different person has been circulated with this claim.

An initial search of reliable sources found no information that the Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary, Abul Kalam Azad Majumdar, had recently been attacked. A subsequent search found a clearer version of the video posted on September 30 by a Facebook profile named Fazal Sheikh. Mr. Fazal captioned the video, “This is the state of our educated society, fighting in the middle of the highway. What will we learn from this?”

This means the video itself does not claim to feature the Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary, Abul Kalam Azad Majumdar.

Subsequently, Rumor Scanner confirmed that the person in the video and Abul Kalam Azad Majumdar are distinctly two different individuals by comparing their appearances.

Therefore, a video of a different person has been circulated with the claim that Deputy Press Secretary Azad was attacked; which is false.

Sources

• Fazal Sheikh: Facebook Video