This video does not show the GenZ march in support of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Police

This video is from a march organized in Jhalawar, Rajasthan, demanding justice for the children who died in a school accident.

After violence erupted on 26 September, 2025, over a “I Love Muhammad” billboard campaign, Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh is on high alert. The issue began on 4 September in Kanpur, when some people protested to an illuminated “I Love Muhammad” poster placed during an Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi procession. On 27 September, 2025, the Uttar Pradesh Police arrested eight people in connection with the violent conflict in Bareilly, including Tauqeer Raza Khan, a local Islamic cleric who organized a demonstration.

Against this backdrop, a video of large crowd carrying torches in a procession and chanting slogans supporting UP police is going viral on social media with the claim that the Gen Z youth took out a torch procession in support of UP CM Yogi Adityanath and the UP Police.

Let’s check the truth

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Fact Check- 

We started the investigation with a reverse image search on Google and the results led us to multiple social media posts and these posts states that the video shows a youth demonstration in Jaipur, organised to seek justice for the families of children killed in the Jhalawar school tragedy. The caption of the below post reads, “Naresh Meena is on a hunger strike at SMS Hospital. A massive torchlight procession was led by his son, Anirudh, to pay tribute to the children who died in the Jhalawar-Piplodi accident”.

In another video shared on Twitter on 25 September 2025, we can hear the slogans which are not the ones heard in the viral video being circulated on social media. The rough translation of the Hindi slogans states that the government should come to its senses and do justice or drown and die. They also call it Naresh Meena Zindabad. 

Upon further search, we came across a news report from NDTV. According to this news, Naresh Meena has been on a hunger strike for 14 days demanding compensation of Rs 50 lakh each to the relatives of the children who died in the roof collapse of a school in Jhalawar, Rajasthan in July. A torch rally was organized in Jaipur under the leadership of his son in support of Naresh Meena.

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The route of this rally was reported in the news as Gujjar ki Thadi from Triveni Nagar Chouraha in Jaipur. When we checked this route on Google Maps, we found the buildings seen in the video. We can see the Google Street View of the place seen in the video below.

We can also see the buildings seen in the video on Street View. In the comparison below, we can see the Kamla Tower seen in the video and the Lenskart showroom.

As the video gained traction on social media, the UP Police also clarified about this incident on 1 October, 2025. The post reads, “A video going viral on social media is being linked to the UP Police with false claims. Truth: This video is of the torch procession in Rajasthan (Jaipur) on September 25, 2025, which is being posted on social media with a fake voiceover added to it”.

Based on these evidences, we can understand that the viral video shows a torchlight procession held on 25 September 2025 in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The slogans in the video were digitally added.

Conclusion- 

Fact Crescendo found that this video does not show the GenZ march in support of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Police, the viral video has been digitally Altered. This video is from a march organized in Jhalawar, Rajasthan, demanding justice for the children who died in a school accident. The audio of the footage has been edited.