Doctored video of woman bathing in Ganga in bikini goes viral by @barkhatrehan16, @PihuBanerjee01 – Alt News
The story uses screenshots and not the actual viral video in view of its sensitive nature.
A 12-second long video is going viral on social media where a woman is seen bathing in river water while wearing a bikini.
The video was posted on September 15 by X user Barkha Trehan with the caption, “Location : Haridwar. Madam: My Body My Choice. Your take ??” The video garnered over 1 million views. (Archive)
In her X bio, Trehan identifies herself as ‘Activist | Voice Of Men | President, Purush Aayog’.
Media outlet News 18 No published a report with screenshots from the video pointing out that it had angered social media users. (Archive)
This same video was posted by content creator Piyali Banerjee, where she questioned the “basic decency” and “knowledge of clothing” of the woman.
Other social media users also shared the same video with similar captions, questing the woman for wearing a bikini in Haridwar, with misogynistic comments about her character.
The video is also viral on Instagram.
Fact Check
To verify its authenticity, we ran a reverse image search on a few keyframes from the viral clip. This search led us to a reel posted on Instagram on August 18. The 21-second long reel was uploaded by an account named ‘ishika_pandit’. It showed the same woman bathing at the same spot, but wearing completely different clothes.
This video matched the background of the viral clip with the steel railing on the river and the foundations of a bridge clearly visible in the background. The woman’s hand gestures also mirror the viral video, and the same two men are visible in both videos.
Based on these similarities, it can be concluded that the video uploaded on August 18 is the original footage. The woman in the original video is seen wearing a yellow suit, and not a bikini. Thus, the viral clip is a doctored version of the original video, manipulating the attire of the woman.
A few hours after posting the viral clip criticising the woman’s attire, Piyali Banerjee posted the original video, but continued to question the woman’s choice of clothing. (Archive)
In the morning I posted a video of my sister in which she was seen bathing on the ghat of Haridwar in white and pink lingerie.
After investigation, this video came in front of me which tells me that it is the real video and that video was edited by some AI.
So sad who logs in… https://t.co/lqHZjMwyfK pic.twitter.com/iah9UO2Iqr— Piyali Banerjee (@PihuBanerjee01) September 15, 2026
On further investigation, we came across the Instagram account of Sonam Yadav, with 359,000 followers, who had posted the same video of herself taking a dip in the Ganga river at Haridwar on June 6.
On September 15, after the doctored video had gone viral, Yadav posted two videos on her account, clarifying that her bathing video from Har Ki Pauri ghat in Haridwar had been doctored and circulated on social media. She warned social media users against sharing the doctored video, saying that she had filed a legal complaint in the matter.
Thus, to sum up, a doctored video of a woman was circulated on social media, manipulating her attire possibly with the help of AI, with the false claim she was bathing in the Ganga in Haridwar wearing a bikini.
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