The misuse of a model’s photograph — one that, according to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, appears multiple times in Haryana’s electoral rolls — is not confined to the voter list alone. The same image, originally captured and published by Brazilian photographer Matheus Ferrero over eight years ago, has been repeatedly used on professional networking site LinkedIn to create fake profiles of professionals.

Earlier, the Leader of Opposition addressed a press conference where he presented a report titled “The H Files,” alleging that a Brazilian model’s picture appears twenty-two times in the voter rolls, under different names such as Seema, Sweety, and Sarsawati, among others.

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