No, This Image Does Not Show Surpiya Shrinate With Dawood Ibrahim

This image shows Sheela Bhatt, a journalist, interviewing Ibrahim and not Surpriya Shrinate.

Fact-check: An image of Dawood Ibrahim with journalist, Sheela Bhatt, is being shared with a false claim that it shows him with Congress Spokersperson, Supriya Shrinate.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

A photograph showing fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim at the office table with a woman sitting opposite to him is going viral on social media.

The claim states that the image shows former journalist and current Congress Spokesperson Supriya Shrinate posing with Ibrahim.

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Is this true?: No, the woman posing in the picture with Ibrahim is a journalist named Sheela Bhatt.

• Bhatt took to Twitter to identify herself in the viral image and stated that this image dates back to 1987.

How did we find out the truth?: We performed a reverse image search on the image which led us to a tweet shared by Sheela Bhatt, a journalist.

• Bhatt's tweet stated that this photograph was clicked in Pearl Building, Dubai in 1987 when she interviewed Dawood.

• She also shared another tweet which mentioned that her interviews with Dawood were cover pages of her magazine, Abhiyaan and of The Illustrated Weekly.

• We also check social media platforms of Shrinate and did not find any mention of this picture.

• Moreover, Shrinate was born in 1977, making her only ten years old when this viral image of Ibrahim and Bhatt was clicked.

• We have also reached out to Shrinate and Bhatt for their quotes, the story will be updated once we receive a response.

Conclusion: An image of Dawood Ibrahim with journalist, Sheela Bhatt, is being shared with a false claim that it shows him with Congress Spokersperson, Supriya Shrinate.

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