Fact Check: Video of a man catching his wife red-handed with paramour is scripted and not a real incident
Married men seem to be the most vulnerable category and are prone to ending their lives due to marital problems.;
Married men seem to be the most vulnerable category and are prone to ending their lives due to marital problems. According to NCRB data, among married people, more men died by suicide as compared to women. In the year 2022, 83,713 married men died by suicide as compared to 30,771 women during the same period. The recent cases of techies from Bengaluru, and Agra have shaken the country and sparked a wide debate around India’s tough dowry laws which are designed to protect women from harassment and even murder.
Atul Subhash, a techie from Bengaluru, killed himself in December 2024. He left a detailed 24-page suicide note and 81-minute video on the trouble in his marriage and divorce proceedings. Similar to this case, a 30-year-old man working as a manager in TCS also ended his lie after recording a 6-minute video, pleading for awareness of men’s struggles and expressing loneliness. Another incident of a woman killing her husband along with her lover is also reported in the media. After these incidents, activism for men’s struggles has risen, and on social media platforms, people have started sharing different videos to make a statement about the problems faced by men.
A video showing a woman spending time in a hotel room, being caught by her husband is shared with captions like “This married woman came to a hotel room with her BF Look at her shamelessness when her husband catches her!” The video is in circulation, implying that the woman in the video represents women in today’s society.
“ये हैं आज के समाज की बदतमीज़ और बेहया औरतें!! बताइये….ये औरत शादीशुदा है होटल में दूसरे मर्द के साथ पकड़ी गई है फिर भी पति से बोल रही है कि "मैं तुझे क्यों बताऊं। सवाल यह कि शादी को मजाक बना रखा है! फिर ये गुजारा भत्ता मांगेगी या पति को मारवा देगी!” When translated, it claims that “These are the rude and shameless women of today's society!! Tell me….this woman is married and has been caught with another man in a hotel and yet she is telling her husband, “Why should I tell you? The question is that marriage has been made a joke! Then will she ask for alimony or get her husband killed!”
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Fact Check:
The claim is False. The video is a scripted one and is not related to any real incident that occurred recently. When we extracted keyframes from the viral video and searched the image using Google reverse image search, we found that the person seen in the video is a social media influencer, who publishes scripted videos on YouTube.
We found the viral video published on a YouTube channel named Ankita Karotiya on August 25, 2024, with the title ‘Ankita Karotiya II @royaltiger02”.
We found the Instagram handle of Ankita Karotiya seen in the video which shows several reels and videos and also a YouTube channel which contains several scripted videos. Her bio on Instagram states that she is a prankster and she is from Delhi.
Her Facebook profile states that she is a digital content creator and actor from Delhi.
We also found other videos that have similar scripts. Though we did not find any disclaimer on these videos, we found a disclaimer published on other videos.
Recently, Telugupost debunked another video which was found to be published on the same YouTube channel and was proved to be a scripted video.
Therefore, a part of a scripted video published by a content creator is shared with the claim that it shows a woman spending time in a hotel room, was caught by her husband. The claim is False.