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False: Video shows two Hindu women being molested by a group of Rohingya men in West Bengal A disturbing video showing a group of men molesting and groping two women on a dirt road in Uttar Pradesh in 2017, has been revived on social media with a false claim that the incident took place in West Bengal and that the perpetrators are Rohingyas.BOOM found that the claim is  (Source: BOOM Live)

False: The Philippine Coast Guard fired water cannons at Chinese boats in the West Philippine Sea in May 2023 A video posted on YouTube and Facebook (FB) passed off an old photo of the Japan Coast Guard firing a water cannon at a North Korean fishing vessel to claim that the incident was between the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and a Chinese vessel in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). This  (Source: Vera Files)

Half True: Disciple of Dhirendra Shastri of Bageshwar Dham has eloped with the wife of one of the organisers The viral post claiming that a disciple of Dhirendra Shastri of Bageshwar Dham eloped with a woman of the event's host is misleading. The man, who eloped with the woman, was not the disciple of Dhirendra Shastri of Bageshwar Dham but was associated with Acharya Dhirendra of Chitr (Source: Vishvasnews)