After Delhi Police issued warrant against campaigner Nikita Jacob in connection with the ‘toolkit’ controversy over the ongoing farmer protests, a picture of a girl along with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is doing the rounds on the internet. It is being claimed that the girl in the picture is Nikita Jacob.
A Facebook user shared the post with a caption, ‘तार जुड़ रहे है, निकीता जैकब जो टूलकिट मामले में फरार है’
(Translation- The dots are connecting. Nikita Jacob, who is absconding in the toolkit case)
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FACT CHECK
We fact-checked the above post and found that the claim is fake.
We ran a Reverse Image Search on the picture and found a post on Facebook by a user, Prerna Saxena, who had posted the same picture on February 16, 2021.
The caption of the picture in Hindi loosely translated to ‘The girl seen in this photo is Ankita Shah, I am a good friend! Calling it Nikita Jacob, BJP’s IT cell is maligning the image of Arvind Kejriwal and Ankita…READ MORE‘
Further, in one of the posts on Twitter, we found a comment which read, “She is Ankita Shah. Don’t Spread faku like teku’
She is Ankita Shah. Don’t Spread faku like teku
— Swahil Ahmed Chowdhury AAP🙏 (@swahilahmed78) February 15, 2021
With that information, we looked for Ankita Shah’s social media handles and found a verified user by the username @Ankita_Shah8. We found the same photo uploaded on the profile on February 28, 2019.
Finally met my favorite @ArvindKejriwal 😎🤘 pic.twitter.com/qo9JXfO0or
— Ankita Shah (@Ankita_Shah8) February 28, 2019
The profile bio read, “Die Hard Fan !! Arvind Kejriwal !! AAP National Social Media Team !! INDIA”.
NewsMobile also reached out to Shah who confirmed that the girl in the picture with Kejriwal is, in fact, her.
The above investigation proves that the girl in the picture is AAP supporter Ankita Shah.
Further, we found lawyer Nikita Jacob’s picture in various news reports which confirms that that girl in the viral picture is not Nikita Jacob.
Hence, based on the above information, we can say that the girls in both pictures are different and the picture is not of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal with Nikita Jacob.
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