Fact Check: Viral video of young woman being aggressive with police is not a drug addict but a mentally-challenged woman arrested in Kadiri
Drug addiction is one of the serious and disastrous problems that has trapped the younger generation
Claim :
Viral video shows a young woman, a drug addict, from Koramangala, Bengaluru, being dragged away by the policeFact :
The video shows a mentally-challenged young woman arrested by police in Kadiri, Mangaluru. She was tested negative for drugs
Drug addiction is one of the serious and disastrous problems that has trapped the younger generation. It is causing numerous mental and physical ailments. Many youngsters in India are falling prey to drug abuse, leading to several problems for themselves and their families.
Meanwhile, a video showing a young woman misbehaving with the police and getting dragged by the women police is going viral on all platforms of social media, including WhatsApp, with the claim that the woman is a drug addict belonging to Koramangala in Bengaluru.
The claim in Telugu goes as: “కోరమంగళలో డ్రగ్ అడిక్ట్ కేసు*! మాదక ద్రవ్యాలకు అలవాటు పడిన కన్న కూతుర్ని సరి చేయడం తమ వల్ల కాదని పోలీసులకు స్వయంగా అప్పగించిన తల్లిదండ్రులు.! తల్లిదండ్రులూ .. మీకు ఎన్ని పనులు ఉన్నా .. దయచేసి మీ పిల్లలపై దృష్టి పెట్టండి. ఆధునికత పేరుతో అనేక పోకడలకు పోతున్న యువత పెడదోవపడుతోంది.”
Fact Check:
The claim is Misleading. The woman seen in the video is a mentally-challenged young woman caught wandering and being aggressive on the streets of Kadiri in Mangaluru.
When we searched the key frames that were extracted from the video, we found a few articles about the video.
An article published in Daijiworld.com states that the video of a young girl behaving in a rash manner with the police personnel in a police station in Mangaluru is viral with a caption that she is a drug addict.
Clarifying on the matter, city police commissioner Anupam Agarwal said: “Officials of the excise department received a message that a young girl is behaving rashly in a medical shop at Pumpwell on September 1. As the officials tried to take her for a narcotic test on the suspicion that she must have consumed drugs, she behaved in a violent manner with the personnel.
Later, when the girl was taken to hospital with the help of women police personnel for a narcotic test, the result was negative. She was handed over to her parents and is getting medical treatment in a hospital at present.
An article published in headlinekarnataka.com on September 9, 2023, states that on September 1, 2023, a young woman came to a medical unit in Pumpwell and was behaving aggressively. She also attacked the officials from the excise department. She was taken to the police station thinking that she was an addict. But after the test results were found negative, police clarified that she was a mentally -challenged person and handed her over to her parents.
A Facebook post by Mangaluru city police also clarifies that the young woman was not on drugs and that she was receiving treatment for her aggressive behaviour. The investigation is still going on about the aggressive behaviour towards the excise department officials.
Therefore, the video shows a mentally-challenged young girl behaving aggressively towards the police officials and she tested negative for drug consumption. This incident took place in Kadiri, Mangaluru, and not in Koramangala, Bengaluru. The claim is Misleading.
