A video showing three to four individuals brutally attacking a bull has been widely circulated on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook in India, with claims that it depicts Muslims attacking a cow at an ISKCON farm in Bangladesh.
Some posts making this claim can be seen here, here, here, and here.
Fact-Check
An investigation by Rumor Scanner has confirmed that the claim of an attack on an ISKCON cow farm in Bangladesh is entirely false. The video, based on which the claim has been circulated on social media, is actually from Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
A reverse image search on a keyframe from the viral video led us to an Instagram post dated November 14, 2024, by a user named ‘Vinay Kapoor3930’. According to the post’s caption, the video was filmed at Jamsher Dairy in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. The Hindi post reads, in google English translation: “In Jalandhar’s Jamsher Dairy, some people were beating a cow (bull) very brutally; as soon as we got the video, we reached the spot and complained about it to the police administration so that strict action could be taken against such culprits.”
Similarly, we found another post on X (formerly Twitter) shared on November 19, 2024, featuring the same video. In a response to the post, PETA India (an organization dedicated to the ethical treatment of animals) mentioned that an FIR had already been registered by the Sadar Police Station under Section 325 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 11 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act.
Later, we found a news report on a website named ‘Khabristanpunjabi’ on November 27, which used snapshots of the viral video in its article’s feature image. According to this report, the incident in the video took place at a dairy farm in Jalandhar, Punjab.
A report by The Tribune on 20 November 2024 mentioned that Srisht Bhakshi, head of the Animal Protection Foundation, filed a complaint condemning the incident in the viral video. Following the complaint, an FIR under Sections 325 of the BNS and 11 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, was registered at the Sadar Police Station.
We found the Facebook page of the Animal Protection Foundation, based in Jalandhar, Punjab, which posted the viral video on 13 November 2024 with the caption “Help us find the culprit..”. The page also posted photos of the complaint sent to the police commissioner regarding the viral video on 17 November and the FIR copy on 18 November.
Srisht Bhakshi, of the Animal Protection Foundation in Jalandhar, who filed a complaint about the incident, told Factly that the video shows a bull being brutally beaten by four men at Jamsher Dairy Complex in Jalandhar, Punjab. The police stated, “In our preliminary investigation, the owner of the dairy farm claimed the video is nearly two years old. The people in the video attacked the bull because it had previously attacked one of the dairy farm workers.”
To sum up, the video showing a cow being brutally beaten by 3-4 individuals is not from Bangladesh. The video is actually from India and depicts a brutal attack on a bull by unidentified dairy workers at a dairy farm in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Hence, the claim that an ISKCON cow farm in Bangladesh was attacked by Muslims is false.
