‘Trashy ruminations’: MEA on PM Modi’s Israel visit reference in Epstein files

The Ministry of External Affairs on Saturday said that “allusions” made about Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an email part of the Jeffery Epstein files “deserve to be dismissed with the utmost contempt”.

The “Epstein files” are millions of documents, photos and videos detailing the criminal activities of Epstein, an American financier and a convicted child sex offender, and his social circle that included politicians, celebrities and several public figures.

India’s external affairs ministry was commenting on reports about a purported email that was part of a fresh set of Epstein files released by the United States Department of Justice on Friday.

The email had a reference to one of Modi’s visits to Israel.

“Beyond the fact of the prime minister’s official visit to Israel in July 2017, the rest of the allusions in the email are little more than trashy ruminations by a convicted criminal, which deserve to be dismissed with the utmost contempt,” ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in a statement.

Modi had visited Israel between July 4 and July 6 that year.

The comment came after the Congress on Saturday criticised Modi in connection with the reference.

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