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By Srijit Das A video from West Bengal’s Barasat district showing a woman being attacked by a mob is viral on social media with a false communal claim that it shows a Hindu woman being brutally assaulted by Muslims. Another clip of the same incident is being circulated with another false claim that in a complete breakdown of law and order locals began assaulting police officers when they came to arrest a woman. BOOM found both the claims to be false. We spoke to Barasat Superintendent of Police, Pratiksha Jharkhariya, who confirmed that the videos show an old incident where an innocent woman w…

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