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Pakistan Born UK MP Nazir Ahmed Attempts To Stoke Communal Tension In India By Spreading False Rumours
Swarajya Staff
Mar 02, 2020, 01:36 PM | Updated 01:36 PM IST
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Nazir Ahmed, a member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, shared a video on Twitter in which he claimed that a mother and her infant child were buried alive in India by “fascists”.
The tweet which sought to spread an anti-India narrative by giving it a communal colour, soon went viral.
This is how @Twitter provides a platform for macabre anti-#India propaganda. A #Pakistani using horrific crimes of #Pakistan to peddle anti-India hate and fuel/instigate riots. As intermediary which refuses to act against such hate handles, Twitter is accountable. @rsprasad pic.twitter.com/XBq6XjOkm0
— Kanchan Gupta (@KanchanGupta) March 1, 2020
In reality, the video Ahmed had shared was recorded in North Dinajpur district's Islampur area (Shujali), in West Bengal and is a case of domestic violence, as investigated by Boomlive.
The woman and her two-month-old infant daughter were murdered and buried in the backyard by a man, identified as Akbar Alam.
Noor Jahan had married Alam two years ago and had given birth to a girl which enraged her husband and he killed them both on 29 January and buried them, claims the report.
This news was also reported earlier by local news channel in Bengal.
A better fact-check. How a Bengal crime incident is given communal colour and passed off. Fake news alert, @Twitter https://t.co/Wdk80i798v
— Abhijit Majumder (@abhijitmajumder) March 1, 2020
However, Ahmed who sits in the upper house of the UK parliament gave this video a communal twist, while in reality it was a case of a husband killing his wife and committing an act of female infanticide.
The Pakistani origin UK lawmaker Ahmed has been charged with two counts of attempted rape.
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