While the dust had not even settled on the Nirav Modi financial fraud and the ED was in the process of conducting raids, news trickled in yesterday about another businessman, Vikram Kothari, the promoter of Rotomac Pen fleeing the country after swindling Rs. 800 crores from various public sector banks.
https://twitter.com/IndiaTodayFLASH/status/965260628670660608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The news of Vikram Kothari absconding was relayed by every major news agency there is.
https://twitter.com/IndianExpress/status/965270943533862912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/ndtv/status/965262364579741696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/bsindia/status/965394881387618304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
As soon as this news of Kothari fleeing the country was broken, which turned out to be false later, the usual suspects started their cacophony about how Narendra Modi must answer.
https://twitter.com/sanjaynirupam/status/964910818671321088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/paranjoygt/status/965396669218152453?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/pankhuripathak/status/965266265756635137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/_Ushinor/status/965236159382261760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Some didn’t even shy away from connecting the false news to demonetisation. The irony of it all is that Ms Dalal is the managing editor of MoneyLifeIndia and trustee of MoneyLifeF that deals with Finance news.
https://twitter.com/suchetadalal/status/965420493519011840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Soon, news emerged that Kothari was still present in Kanpur and hadn’t fleed the country at all.
https://twitter.com/ANINewsUP/status/965435138451656705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
While the news of his still being present emerged early this morning, news started trickling in about how the CBI was not only conducting raids in various locations related to Vikram Kothari but was also questioning the Kothari family.
https://twitter.com/ANINewsUP/status/965456726748262401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The CBI has not registered a case against Rotomac pen promoter Vikram Kothari and has been arrested.
https://twitter.com/CNNnews18/status/965456527858569217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Now that the CBI has arrested Kothari from India, the media must be questioned as to what their source of this false news was.