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A disturbing video of a man being attacked is being shared with a claim that BJP “goons” are torturing Muslim youth in Madhya Pradesh (MP) during lockdown.The 20-second-long video shows a group of men beating a man with lathis, pulling his hair, while he cries in pain.The Nadia district Congress media coordinator who goes by the name of Safi Mallick on Facebook shared the video with a caption that reads, “See how the BJP goons are torturing a Muslim youth in the name of lock down in Madhya Pradesh.”The claim of BJP men attacking Muslim youth in MP is false. In reality, the video belongs to an incident where a sanitation worker was attacked by locals in the state.Using InVID Google Chrome extension, we broke the video into keyframes. After running reverse-image search on them via Google search engine, we found the same visuals in a news report cum video report dated April 18, 2020 by NDTV.Titled ‘ Coronavirus COVID-19 Madhya Pradesh: On Camera, Madhya Pradesh Sanitation Worker Attacked, Clothes Ripped’, the report states that a group of sanitation worker in MP was attacked by a mob of locals in Dewas district when they went to a neighbourhood to clean the streets.A man named Adil, who police say is the main accused, was arrested for attacking sanitation worker Deepak and his colleagues with an axe.“We have registered a case of attempt to murder and under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act," the report quotes police officer Sajjan Singh as saying.One of the sanitation workers, who was attacked with an axe, has been admitted to hospital after his hand was badly injured, the report mentions.Times Fact Check has found that video of sanitation workers being attacked by a man named Adil and his accomplices is being shared with a false claim that BJP men are attacking Muslim youth during lockdown in MP.