Overview
- India Today and The Quint, publishing Wednesday and Friday, verified that the video was shot at Shree Krishna Medical College and Hospital in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, and not in West Bengal.
- The footage was traced to local outlet Maurya Dhwaj Express, whose reporter Prem Shankar recorded the scene, with editor Bramhadev Kushwaha confirming the location and timing.
- Local reports describe a clash between patients or their relatives and hospital trolley workers outside the emergency ward, after which SKMCH removed the trolley workers from the area.
- The clip spread widely on X and Instagram after posts by accounts like Incognito_qfs and coverage by several outlets, before later fact-checks corrected the record.
- India Today also flagged a separate assault video from Mumbai that was rebranded as West Bengal violence, pointing to a broader pattern of recycled clips during post-poll tension.