Fact Check: No Military Aid Sent From India Against Student Protests In Bangladesh; Viral Video Is Misleading And Old

New Delhi (Vishvas News). Amidst the ongoing violence in Bangladesh, a video showing several vehicles of the Indian Army is going viral on social media. Sharing the video, users are claiming that Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sought help from India to deal with the student protests and now India has sent its army.

In its investigation, Vishvas News found that India has not sent any military assistance against the ongoing student protests in Bangladesh. The viral video has been circulating on the internet since 2022 with fake claims linking it to the ongoing student protests in Bangladesh.

What is in the viral post?

Sharing the viral post, a Facebook user wrote, “Memories of 1971 are fresh again. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Hasina Wajid sought help from India to crush the protesters. A company of the Indian Army is entering Bangladesh from West Bengal.”

View the archived version of the post here.

Investigation

To begin our investigation, we first searched for key frames of the viral video on Google Lens and found this video uploaded on an Instagram handle on May 31, 2022.

Further investigation revealed the same video uploaded on the Facebook page ‘Hum Fauji Is Desh Ki Dhadkan Hain’ on June 23, 2022.

Continuing the investigation, we tried to determine whether the vehicles in the video belonged to the Indian Army. On searching the news, we found an article from Business Standard, in which the exact vehicle seen in the viral video can be seen. According to the information provided, “Ashok Leyland, the largest supplier of logistics vehicles to the Indian Army, announced on Monday that it has received large orders worth Rs 800 crore for defence vehicles.”

So far, the investigation has clarified that the vehicles in the viral video belong to the Indian Army, but this video dates back to 2022. We searched the news about the claim that India’s military helped Bangladesh. In our search, we found a post on X by Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. According to the press release, more than 4500 Indian students have returned to India from Bangladesh and the High Commission is making security arrangements for the safe movement of Indian citizens.

According to a July 25 2024 report in the Indian Express, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal described the ongoing student protest as an ‘internal’ matter of Bangladesh.

To verify the claim made in the viral video, we contacted JP Ranjan, senior correspondent covering international affairs at Dainik Jagran. He confirmed that India has not sent any such army against Bangladeshi students and this claim is fake.

Next, we reviewed the Facebook user who shared the fake post and found that the user is from Pakistan.

Conclusion: Vishvas News found in its investigation that India has not sent military assistance against student protests in Bangladesh. The viral video has been on the internet since 2022 and is being circulated with fake claims linking it to the ongoing student protests in Bangladesh.

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• Bangladesh
• Bangladesh protests
• Bangladesh Violence
• Militry Aid