Edited video falsely claims to depict scene of rice seizure from Adviser Asif’s house
Recently, a video went viral on Facebook and X. Several users shared the video claiming that 1,200 sacks of rice were found in the house of interim government Adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan. They also claimed that the person in the video was the adviser’s father and that when asked for an explanation, he tried to bribe the police to suppress the matter. However, fact-check shows the claim is false and the video is edited. According to media reports, the incident in question involves the arrest of a local union council member in Chandpur after rice allocated for the poor was seized from his house.
The claim with the video of rice being seized from Adviser Asif’s house has been circulating on Facebook since June 2. Multiple users (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) shared the video with the same claim. The following day, on June 3, the same video continued to be shared (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) under the identical claim. The exact same video with the same claim was also shared on X (1, 2, 3). In the description of the posts, it was written: “Found 12 hundred sacks of rice at Adviser Asif’s house, when asked by his father to answer he tried to manage by bribing the police.”
In the 19-second video, several policemen are seen arresting a man while a woman in front of them addresses him, saying: “This rice was given to distribute to poor people, not for you to keep in your house. What have you done?” (statement unchanged). One of the videos shared with the false claim has been viewed more than 1.4 million times on Facebook, shared more than 11,000 times, received nearly 4,000 reactions and about 500 comments.
Analysis of the comments shows that many viewers believed the video to be true and praised the authorities, while others expressed doubt about its authenticity. Believing it to be true, one user wrote: “Congratulations to the administration for starting action.” Another wrote: “He should be brought under the law and punished.” Expressing doubt, one user commented: “What proof is there that this is Asif’s father??” Another wrote: “This is not Asif’s father.”
To verify the authenticity of the incident, Dismislab first conducted an online search using keyframes from the video. The search found a video report on the official Facebook page and YouTube channel of DBC News, which matched the one being shared on Facebook. The report was titled: “Union council member arrested with 16 sacks of VGF rice in Chandpur.” Analysis of the three-minute, five-second report shows that the portion from 1:46 minute to 2:05 minutes was cut and circulated under the false claim.
To be more certain, Dismislab conducted another online search using relevant keywords. Several news reports (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) provided details of the same incident. Published on June 2, the online reports said that in Shahrashti upazila of Chandpur, a union council member was arrested after rice allocated for the poor was seized from his house. Shahrashti upazila executive officer (UNO) Nigar Sultana said that the rice was recovered around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday night from the house of ward-6 member Md. Humayun Kabir of Suchipara South Union.
News reports identified the arrested man as Md. Humayun Kabir from Chandpur. Adviser Asif’s father, however, is named Billal Hossain and is the head teacher of Akabpur Yakub Ali Bhuiyan Public High School in Cumilla. In other words, they are two different people. Moreover, the face of Adviser Asif’s father does not match that of the person in the video.
That means the claim that 1,200 sacks of rice were recovered from Adviser Asif’s house and that his father bribed police to cover it up is false. A video from a different incident has been edited and circulated to falsely link Adviser Asif’s father.
This is not the first time false claims have been spread involving Adviser Asif’s father. In February this year, a video circulated on social media claimed he was torturing villagers. At that time, Dismislab’s verification showed the video was actually from a different incident in 2024.
Disclaimer: The original version of this fact-check report was published in Bengali on Dismislab’s Bengali website on June 3, 2025. The English translation was completed later; however, to maintain time accuracy and avoid any potential misinterpretation, the English version has been published with the original publication date.
