FACT CHECK: No police 'crackdown' at Shaheen Bagh protest site

CLAIM
A Facebook user who goes by the name of 'Feku Zee' went live on Facebook with a video on January 15, 2020. The caption of the video, written in Hindi, loosely translates to, "Police came to Shaheen Bagh like thieves at an odd hour, but what happened next forced them to retreat."

The video has been viewed more than 1.2 million times, and shared nearly 60,000 times.
The same video has been shared by many others as Facebook 'Watch Party', Facebook lives and otherwise with more or less the same claim that Delhi Police attempted a 'crackdown' at Shaheen Bagh protest site in the wee hours of January 15, 2o20.
TRUTH
No, Delhi Police did not attempt any 'crackdown' at Shaheen Bagh, where many people are protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
The video that is being widely shared with the false claim was actually shot at Khureji Village in East Delhi, where people anti-CAA protests are happening in a similar manner as the one in Shaheen Bagh. Rumours of police action in the early hours of January 15, 2020, had triggered a tense situation at the Khureji protest site but it was immediately diffused by senior police officials present there.
We could find the same video on YouTube with titles giving the correct information.
VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGY
We watched the video carefully and noticed a sign board with directions to Jagat Puri. We checked the distance between Jagat Puri and Shaheen Bagh on Google Maps and found it to be around 20 kilometers, and that these places are at least 50 minutes apart (considering traffic).

This made us wonder if it is a different protest site in Delhi, and not Shaheen Bagh.
We then ran a Google search using keywords 'Muslim camp Delhi Police crackdown 3 am' and found a report on a website called millattimes.com titled, 'Late night terror of Delhi Police at Khureji protest site'. The details in the report corresponded to visuals in the video.
We searched how far Jagat Puri is from Khureji Khas on Google Maps and found that these places are less than two kilometers apart. Assuming that the chances of having a sign board with directions to Jagat Puri is more at Khureji Khas than Shaheen Bagh, we narrowed down our search. This is just an indicator, not a conclusive proof.

We then got in touch with TOI reporter Somreet Bhattacharya to get more clarity on what happened and when. Somreet directed us to a TOI report titled 'Rumours of action by police spark tension', published on January 16, 2020, which was about rumours of action by Delhi Police at Khureji village in East Delhi in the wee hours of January 15, 2020, leading to a near standoff between police and anti-CAA protesters there.
The report said that a team of cops reached Khureji protest site following information about a scuffle between the protesters and a group supporting the implementation of CAA, 2019, but on reaching the site, realised it was a false alarm. However, the protesters accused the police or high-handedness and this led to a tense situation for a while, and senior officers intervened and diffused the tension.
DCP (Shahdara) Amit Sharma, who could be seen in the video, said that the matter was resolved immediately and that there were no incidents of violence or attack on the policemen. "We have asked the organisers to maintain peace at the venue," he said.
Khalif Saifi, cofounder of United Against Hate, is believed to have shot the video/gone live on Facebook during the incident, and this video was later shared by others with a false claim that police attempted a 'crackdown' at Shaheen Bagh protest site.
VERDICT
Times Fact Check has found the claim that Delhi Police attempted a 'crackdown' at Shaheen Bagh protest site to be false. The video used to make this claim was actually shot at Khureji protest site in East Delhi where rumours of police action triggered a tense situation which was immediately diffused by the intervention of senior police officers.