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By Anmol Alphonso An old video of a police constable physically assaulting an elderly man at Jabalpur railway station in Madhya Pradesh is being shared with a misleading claim that the incident took place in Uttar Pradesh. BOOM found that the video is from July 2022 when it went viral and caused outrage leading to the police officer’s suspension. In viral video a police constable is kicking an elderly man in his face and punching him, at a railway platform. The 28 seconds video was posted on X by a parody handle impersonating YouTuber Dhruv Rathee with the caption, “Uttar Pradesh is heading to…

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