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A nearly five-year old video showing women in burqas escaping a raid on a massage parlour in Karachi, Pakistan is being shared with false claims on Indian social media.
The clip is going viral with a false claim that the video shows women who participated in protests at Shaheen Bagh, Delhi against the Citizenship Amendment Act, were busted while carrying out a prostitution racket during the ongoing lockdown in India.
BOOM found out that the video was shot in Karachi in 2015 and the claims linking it to Shaheen Bagh are false.
The 90-second-long video shows a group of women escaping from the first floor of a building located in what seems to be a market area. Onlookers gathered beneath the building can be seen helping them get down. In the background, a man can be heard speaking in Hindi.
The video has been shared with a Hindi caption claiming 'Shaheen Bagh lionesses caught red-handed while indulging in prostitution'.
(Hindi: बुरखे की आड़ में सरेआम धंधा करती पकडी गयीं शाहीन बाग की शेरनियां)