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The video shows a man looking like a Naga Sadhu being beaten up by a man with a stick. Dehradun: A video of a Naga Sadhu being beaten up by a member of a minority community in Dehradun which has emerged on social media is fake, police clarified on Sunday.Police said that those who circulated the video on social media have been identified and action would be taken against them. Police said that the incident took place on August 24 in Patel Nagar police station area and the man, portrayed as a Naga Sadhu, was actually a beggar and a drug addict. “He entered a house and tried to molest a woman. After she raised an alarm, her brother came and beat him up,” said police.Bollywood actress Koena Mitra had also retweeted the video, saying that the man beaten up in the video is a ‘Naga Sadhu’, adding that, “This happens in our country every day.”Many other people on social media also declared that an innocent Naga Sadhu was brutally beaten up by members of the minority community in Uttarakhand.However, Dehradun police in a statement said that the claims floating on social media were baseless and the man was identified as Sushil Nath, a native of Yamunanagar in Haryana, who was booked for molesting a woman on August 24 under inebriated condition..