Fake News Expose: BJP MLA Anil Upadhyay hunted deer? Know the truth of this viral video

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What’s going viral A video is going viral on social media. It can be seen in the video that a gunman is feeding the deer to the herd. After this the man shot a deer. It can be seen further in the video that the man slit the throat of the injured deer lying on the ground with a knife.

It is being claimed that the person who hunted the deer is BJP MLA Anil Upadhyay. Sharing the video, users wrote – Salman Khan is still going around the court for hunting deer. But BJP MLA Anil Upadhyay is learning to hunt by shooting a deer in a park. Make it viral and the court should punish him.

And what is the truth?

  • To know the truth of the video, we did a reverse search of its keyframes on Google. In the search result, we get news related to it Bangladesh news Website Found on Daily Star.
  • According to the website, this video of June 2015 is from Chittagong, Bangladesh. Where Moin Uddin Nam, a Bangladeshi based in Australia, hunted deer at his farm house. Its video was also shared by Moin on his Facebook page.
  • In this case, the Chittagong Wildlife Department had sealed Moin’s farm house and rescued 16 deer. At the same time, this news was also published on the website on 12 July 2015.
  • During the investigation, we also found a post related to this on Moin Uddin’s Facebook page.

  • Moin had apologized to the people by sharing the post after the news published in the Bangladeshi newspaper Daily Star. Moin wrote- I am a foreign investor in Bangladesh. Since 2006, I have planted 800 mango trees and 50,000 timber trees on 30 acres of land in Chittagong.
  • Moin further wrote – In this farm I have 102 cows and 18 deer also. I have a license and it clearly states that I can consume adult deer. I apologize to the people who were upset by watching the video. I promise that I will never do this kind of activity again.
  • It is clear that the claim being made with the viral video on social media is false. This video of Bangladesh is from 2015.

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