The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Saturday scrapped an email from the Epstein files that referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his 2017 state visit to Israel, terming it as a “leap”.
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal (ANI file)Calling the reference a “filthy rumor of a convicted criminal”, the MEA said in a statement that it deserved to be dismissed with “the utmost contempt”.
“We have seen reports of an email message from the so-called Epstein files that mentions the Prime Minister and his visit to Israel. Apart from the fact of the Prime Minister’s official visit to Israel in July 2017, the rest of the email’s indications are little more than dirty rumors by a convicted criminal, worthy of outrage,” Jaiswal said in a statement.
New batch of Epstein filesUS Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch said Friday’s batch of documents marked the end of the Donald Trump administration’s planned release under a law that calls for Epstein-related files to be made public. The new cache contains more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, he said at a news conference.
The documents were released weeks after a Dec. 19 deadline mandated by Congress, which passed bipartisan legislation requiring the release of the Epstein files despite months of efforts by Trump to block it.
Many were heavily redacted, which Blanche said was done to protect victims or ongoing investigations under the law’s permitted exceptions. An 82-page document, for example, has all but one page blacked out.
