A video of a man wearing a sacred thread and saffron clothes while eating meat is being shared on social media amid the auspicious Hindu festival of Navratri.

The claim: The video is being shared to claim that it shows one Mohammad Idrish , who was arrested after he pretended to be a Hindu guru and shared a video of him eating meat during Navratri to "insult' Hindu faith.

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

Is it true?: No, the video is a staged one created by Nepali "artist" Mahesh Upreti, making the claim false .

Additionally, there are no credible reports about a person named Mohammad Idrish doing such a thing.

How do we know?: We carried out a reverse image seach using Google Lens, which showed us several results from TikTo

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