❌Indian social media posts falsely identify a woman in a photo with a notorious crime lord as the spokesperson for the opposition Congress party The woman is a different journalist who told AFP she interviewed him in 1988
Below is a screenshot comparison of the photoScreenshot comparison of the photo as it appears in the false post and the photo uploaded on Twitter by Bhatt -- Abhiyaan and The Illustrated Weekly of India -- that carried her interview with Dawood.
Her reply reads:"Flooded with queries if this is fake pic or real. Just to put record straight posting two cover pages 1) Abhiyaan, the weekly founded by me and my late husband Kanti Bhatt and 2) The Illustrated Weekly. Both carried my interview of Dawood Ibrahim in 1987. "Weekly’s cover story was written by distinguished journalist Amrtia Shah. My interview ran along with her cover story. All Dawood pics were taken by me."
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