Claim Buddhist monks are being lathi -charged in Bodh Gaya, Bihar.
Fact check The viral video is using force on Buddhist monk by the police during a demonstration held in Bhadrakali, Nepal in April 2024.
A video of lathicharge on a Buddhist monk on social media is viral. With the viral video, it is being claimed that the Buddhist monk was beaten by the police during the movement of monks on the management of the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, Bihar. Boom, in its investigation, found that the viral video is using force on the Buddhist monk by the police during a demonstration held in Bhadrakali, Nepal in April 2024. Since 12 February 2025, Buddhist monks have been demonstrating in Bodh Gaya, Bihar. They are demanding to abolish the Bodh Gaya Temple Act. The monks demand that all the members of the Bodh Gaya Temple Management Committee be Buddhists.
Facebook user shared the video and wrote, ‘Hindustan will not bear insult to Buddha, Mahabodhi liberation movement’
It also on social media platform Instagram Video Is viral.
To check the fact check viral video, we searched the video-frame reverse image. During the search, we received many reports published in Nepal’s media with the visual of viral video. In a video uploaded on 7 April 2024 on YouTube channel of Nepal’s local media channel Sagaramatha viral video Visual can be seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvkvvmc9w6k
Nepali news portal news Dabli’s 9 April 2024 Report According to, during the protest organized by the Rashtriya Kranti Dal in Bhadrakali, Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, the police also used a force on a Buddhist monk. According to the report of news portal My Republica on 8 April 2024, the incident was followed by the then Home Minister of Nepal, Rabi Lachhimane and Police Department. Report There has also been talk of departmental action against the policeman.
National General Secretary of All India Buddhist Forum denied lathicharge claim
Apart from this, we talked to Akash Lama, the National General Secretary of All India Buddhist Forum on the claim of lathicharge on the Bodh Gaya movement. He denied the viral claim, “The administration did not allow us to protest in the temple premises. On February 27, the police forcefully removed the protesting Buddhist monks from the temple premises in the name of health checkup and treatment. There has been no lathicharge incident by the police in the agitation. Our performance is going on in a place called Domuhan.” He further informed that Buddhist monks have been sitting on a performance since 12 February 2025, they demand that Bodh Gaya Temple Act be abolished on 1949, Buddhists should remain in the temple committee.
This news originally Boom Was published by, and it has been reinstated by NDTV under Shakti Collective.
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