Recently, a video has been circulating on social media, in which a handcuffed accused is seen smiling at a female police officer. Another police officer standing nearby is trying to stop him.
After the video went viral, questions have been raised about its authenticity on social media. Some have spread it as a real incident. However, Bangladeshi fact-checking or information verification organization Rumor Scanner said that this is not a real incident at all, but a video from the shooting of a drama.
This information was reported in a report by Rumor Scanner on Saturday (December 21).
The report said that this video of the accused smiling at a female police officer is not a real incident. It is an acted video recorded during the shooting of the drama serial 'Mashrafi Junior' on private television channel Deepto TV. At the beginning of the investigation, a video was found on a Facebook page named 'Asif Adnan Bro' with the caption 'This is a job' published on November 8. The video in question is exactly the same as that video.
The report further states that the caption ‘Single League President Asif Adnan arrested at the airport’ attached to the video indicates that it is a video made for fun. In addition, the appearance of the person playing the role of the accused in the video is similar to various photos published on that Facebook page. Later, a post titled ‘One morning I woke up and saw that I was viral’ was found on Asif Adnan’s Facebook account on December 18.
In this regard, Asif Adnan said that he works in the digital department of Deepto TV and also creates content. He made this video for himself as a joke during the shooting of the drama.
In addition, the same information was confirmed in a post published on Asif Adnan’s Facebook page on December 20. Therefore, a scripted video of the accused smiling at the female police officer has been circulated on Facebook claiming to be a real incident, which is completely false.