India’s most infamous business fugitive who had been accused of a 1.8 billion dollar fraud by the Punjab National Bank, had reportedly left India in January 2018.Though this renegade diamantire was arrested in the UK on March 16 this year. He was denied bail by the Westminster Magistrates’ court and had been sent to custody till March 29.
the Twitter handle @IamSandipNayak, who mentions himself as an entrepreneur, marketer, motivator, business, developer. The Twitter handle has around 1,750 followers. Sandip tweeted regarding the fugitive that went viral, has about 570 retweets, with 1,330 likes, in which, it is being said that Nirav Modi in the court said that he didn’t flee the country but was forced to do so by the Bhartiya Janata Party leaders. The statement reads, “I did not flee from India, I was expelled. My share of Rs 13,000 crore is 32%, the rest is taken by @BJP4India leaders.” – Nirav Modi in London court. CBI is silent…”
Also, a screenshot of the tweet from a handle @aditi_munshi with the same statement is also quite viral on social media. However, only two tweets were found from her account and the one related to Nirav Modi was deleted. Aditi Munshi is a singer-turned-politician who won from the Rajarhat Gopalpur Assembly constituency seat on Trinamool Congress ticket in 2021. The Twitter account in the name of Munshi mentions ‘Welcome to the official twitter handle of Singer and Politician Aditi Munshi Honourable Member of Legislative Assembly(All India Trinamool Congress) West Bengal’.
A Facebook page named Aam Admi Zindabad had tweeted a purported screenshot of News18 claiming that Nirav Modi has stated that BJP leaders forced him to escape from India. For this, he had paid Rs 456 crore as a commission to BJP leaders.
As per a report published by The Economic Times this year on 21st March stated that “Nirav Deepak Modi, 48, was arrested on behalf of the Indian Authorities on Tuesday in Holborn”—the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. The report further stated that Nirav Modi was produced before the Westminster Magistrates’ Court, where he contested his extradition to India. However, the district judge Marie Mallon denied bail to Modi and remanded him in custody till March 29, saying there were substantial grounds to believe that he would fail to surrender if granted bail.
Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found the claim to be misleading. AFWA reached out to Munshi, who attributed the deleted tweet to a fake account created in her name earlier. “My Twitter account @aditi_munshi is new and has only two tweets so far. It was a fake account that had tweeted about Nirav Modi. I have reported this to the cyber cell of West Bengal police,” Munshi told.
Thus, the viral tweet is fake as there has been no coverage by any verified media house in India or the UK about the statement by Nirav Modi in Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Also, no such posts or tweets were published which could provide a ground to the rumor.
