A video showing a man coming out of an autorickshaw and stealing a manhole cover is being widely shared on X (formerly Twitter).

The claim: The video is being shared with the text, "Thanks to CCTV, this illegal Bangladeshi Sheik Nazarul was caught and arrested. They are digging the infrastructure of our country. They are eating our economy & should be thrown out of our country. (sic)"

(Archives of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here and here .)

Is it true?: No, the claim is false as the person arrested for stealing manhole covers belongs to the Hindu community.

How do we know?: We carried out a reverse image search on the video, which led us to an Instagram post dated 29 August 2025, shared by news organisation Times Now .

It mentioned that two people were

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