{"id":140355,"date":"2022-12-20T21:22:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=140355"},"modified":"2022-12-20T23:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:49:13","slug":"fact-check-modi-photo-with-station-clock-showing-420-is-morphed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fact-check-modi-photo-with-station-clock-showing-420-is-morphed\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Modi photo with station clock showing 4:20 is morphed"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi clicked at a railway station is going viral on social media in which we can see him standing under a digital clock that shows the time as ‘4:20’. Section 420<\/a> of the Indian Penal Code deals with cheating and fraud cases. It is common to refer to a fraudster in India as a ‘420’. The photo is being used to mock the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

Twitter user Jayashankar Kenath, whose bio says he is the editor of The Indian News, shared<\/a> this photo with the caption ‘What an apt capture’. His tweet received 900+ retweets and over 6,000 likes.<\/p>\n

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Another user, Abiha Zaidi, also shared<\/a> the photo on Twitter with a similar caption.<\/p>\n

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Multiple users have shared<\/a> this photo on Twitter in the last 24 hours. Though some of these posts have not received likes and retweets as the two mentioned above, they are quite a few in number.<\/p>\n