Alt News Impact: YouTube removes hateful music video glorifying anti-Muslim violence – Alt News

Three days after Alt News had written to YouTube flagging a hateful music video called ‘Hindu’ posted by the channel ‘Rohit Rai’, the platform has taken down the video for violating its community guidelines.

The video glorified violence against Muslims as a means to ‘protect’ Sanatan Dharma. It was shared on January 8. Responding to Alt News’s email regarding this, a YouTube spokesperson stated on January 16, “Upon review, we have removed the video flagged by Alt News for violating our Violent extremist or criminal organizations policy.”

YouTube’s violent extremist or criminal organizations policy can be read here.

The 2.23-minute video featured Hindutva flagbearers such as Vikrant Thakur, Abhishek Thakur, Daksh Chaudhary, Yudhistheer Rana, Akku Pandit and Prakash Singh.

In it, these men could be seen brandishing swords and firearms. The song opens with the following line, “Hain mata Bhavani ki saugan, jis din ye Hindu jaagenge, ye Akbar, Babar ki aulade chhodke Bharat bhaagenge…” (I swear on Mata Bhavani, the day Hindus wake up, these children of Akbar and Babar will be running away from Bharat).

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The footage first shows the above-mentioned men sitting together, when Daksh Chaudhary gets a call about two men in skullcaps and kuffiyeh (a traditional headgear worn by men in some Muslim countries) attacking two other men and their cows. Daksh and his henchman, Akku Pandit, reach the caller’s location with a gun and shoot one of the Muslim men. Daksh then hands over the rifle to the informer and directs him to kill the other Muslim man.

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In the next part of the video, again, two Muslim men — wearing skullcaps, and covering their faces with kuffiyehs — are seen harassing a woman passing by. Right at this moment, Abhishek Thakur walks in and pushes away one of the men, who then attempts to attack Thakur, and that is stopped by another man — this time a Sikh. Thakur and the Sikh man, both curling their moustache as the Muslim man falls to the ground, hold the “harasser” by his collar and bring him to the woman, who then slaps him a few times before he kneels in front of her, touches her feet and asks for her forgiveness.

The last section of the video shows a Muslim man — easily identifiable with his surma-adorned eyes, skullcap, kuffiyeh, a black pathaan suit and a tabeez in his neck — carrying a gun and a briefcase. He is then seen throwing the briefcase into a school bus carrying children. It is understood that the briefcase is explosive laden. Exactly at this moment, the saviour, Yudhistheer Rana, walks in, carrying a gun, and slams the Muslim man’s head into the bus, making him unconscious. He then gets the briefcase out of the bus and, while standing at the bus door, throws the briefcase seemingly far away, thereby saving the children.

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Throughout the video, one can see saffron flags with ‘Jai Sri Ram’ written on them in Devanagari script being waved, and all the Hindu men are identified with tilaks on their foreheads.

Who is Daksh Chaudhary?

Daksh Chaudhary, a resident of Delhi, is a prominent face of violent Hindutva activism and cow vigilantism in north Indian states.

On November 17, 2025, he, along with his sidekicks Akku and Abhishek were seen closing down a liquor store at Sunrakh Bangar near Vrindavan. In videos of the incident, he was seen boasting that the group had made it all the way from Delhi to Vrindavan to close down the stores – a responsibility that he urged all Vrijwasis to take up in earnest: “Yeh kaam tum bhi kar sakte they.” (“You could have been the one to close down the shutters.”) In the video, Chaudhary and his team could be seen using abusive language and heckling the customers at the liquor shop. This was a day after Chaudhary and his followers walked with Bageshwar Baba Dhirendra Shastri in his ‘Sanatan Hindu Ekta March’.

On hearing that a case had been registered against him, Chaudhary had reportedly threatened to strip a  officer of his uniform. Chaudhary was arrested on November 24 and later released on bail.

Chaudhary and his followers seen in the YouTube video are also among the accused in the case of a brutal attack on the family of a minor Muslim girl in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, in November 2025, after a video of her saying she would eat beef had gone viral.

Further back, in May 2024, Chaudhary was in the news for allegedly slapping and throwing ink on Kanhaiya Kumar when Kumar was campaigning for an AAP candidate in Delhi.

A Platform Policy Question

The policy under which the video got taken down says: “Content intended to praise, promote, or aid violent extremist or criminal organizations is not allowed on YouTube.” The platform provides a list of content that falls under this category:

• Content produced by violent extremist, criminal, or terrorist organizations
• Content praising or memorializing prominent terrorist, extremist, or criminal figures in order to encourage others to carry out acts of violence
• Content praising or justifying violent acts carried out by violent extremist, criminal, or terrorist organizations
• Content aimed at recruiting new members to violent extremist, criminal, or terrorist organizations
• Content depicting hostages or posted with the intent to solicit, threaten, or intimidate on behalf of a criminal, extremist, or terrorist organization
• Content that depicts the insignia, logos, or symbols of violent extremist, criminal, or terrorist organizations in order to praise or promote them
• Content that glorifies or promotes violent tragedies, such as school shootings

Alt News has a copy of the video, but will not make it available to its readers because of its hateful nature. The brief description given in this story and a cursory look at the above list make it abundantly clear that the music video was a perfect example of content that is not allowed by YouTube under its ‘violent extremist or criminal organizations policy’. Still, YouTube took down the video only after Alt News flagged it to them. Ideally, content moderation should have ensured that the video was removed by the platform itself before it reached a large number of followers.

The channel that uploaded the video has 33,000 followers. The video was available for a week and received at least 300,000 views before it got taken down.

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