Social worker’s video circulated as leaked footage of Nasiruddin Patwary
A video posted on Facebook claims to show an intimate video of Nasiruddin Patwary, senior joint convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP). However, Dismislab’s fact-check found that the man in the video is not an NCP leader but a union social worker at an upazila social services office.
The video was posted on November 8 from a Facebook page named “Gopalganj Insiders.” The 17-second video shows a man and a woman. The caption reads, “Intimate video of NCP leader Nasiruddin Patwary leaked!! (Verbatim)”
As of the publication of this report, the video had been viewed more than 68,000 times and shared more than 100 times.
The video was posted with the same claim from multiple Facebook pages and profiles.
To verify its authenticity, a reverse image search was conducted using keyframes of the video, which led to a video published on October 9 of this year on the Facebook page of “Noakhali News,” a local online news outlet in Noakhali. The video’s description reads, “Social services officer’s intimate video with a woman goes viral in Kabirhat after allegedly luring her with the promise of a government allowance,” (verbatim). Some portions of the 3-minute-26-second video bear similarity to the circulated video.
A relevant keyword search on the incident found by Dismislab reports published in multiple news outlets (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). A report published in the Daily Ittefaq on October 9 states, “An allegation has been raised against a union social worker of the upazila social services office of engaging in an objectionable relationship with a woman, after telling her he would give her a family card, in Kabirhat, Noakhali. A video regarding this has spread on social media.”
According to the report, the accused social worker’s name is Md Mofizur Rahman. He admitted that the person in the video is himself. However, he gave a different explanation of how that situation arose in the video.
In other words, the video circulated with the claim of it being an intimate video of NCP leader Nasiruddin Patwary is false. The person in the original video is a social worker in Noakhali.
