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By Srijit Das A news bulletin showing disturbing visuals of a woman who was chained and subjected to sexual assault is being shared by Indian right-wing accounts with a false communal claim that the victim, a Hindu, was raped by Muslim men in Bangladesh. BOOM found that the woman is not a Hindu. We reached out to Deputy Commissioner of Tejgaon Division police, HM Ajimul Haque, who confirmed that the victim is a Muslim and ruled out a communal angle to the incident. The 56 seconds-long news bulletin with the logo of the Bangladeshi news outlet Rtv News shows a woman confined within a room, chai…

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