On social media, three different images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with different girls are being shared. In the first image, PM Modi can be seen sitting in a car with a girl. In the second image, PM Modi is seen holding a girl’s hand. In the third image, PM Modi is seen sitting with a girl inside an aircraft. These images of PM Modi are being shared by linking them to the American sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein.
While sharing these images, one user wrote: “Earlier, we had a Prime Minister whose name was taken at Harvard and Oxford. Now we have a Prime Minister whose name is appearing with Epstein in the #EpsteinFiles. Extremely shameful!!”
Apart from this, several other users have also shared these images by linking them to the Epstein files, which can be found here and here.
Fact Check:
The DFRAC team found during its investigation that the viral images of PM Modi with three different girls are edited. PM Modi’s original photographs have been edited, and the girls were added to them. After performing a reverse image search of the first image, we found that in the original photo, PM Modi is sitting in a car with Russian President Vladimir Putin. NDTV published a report using this image.
In the second image, PM Modi is not sitting with any girl inside the aircraft; instead, official government files are placed beside him. This image was published by Deccan Herald in one of its reports. Meanwhile, in the third image, PM Modi is seen talking to another woman during an event, which has been shared by several users on social media.
Conclusion:
Therefore, the DFRAC’s fact check clearly shows that the viral images of PM Modi with different girls, shared with the claim of being linked to the Epstein files, are edited. These images have no connection to reality, and hence the claim is misleading.
