WHAT DID THE GIRL AND HER FAMILY HAVE TO SAY?
We also reached out to the girl and her family to verify the claims made on the news reports. During our conversation with her, she repeated the version that was put out by ANI and other news channels.
She sent us 27 screenshots that included those of email correspondence with NASA officials and senior academic researchers in different US universities.
She also sent us screenshots of Zoom meetings that she attended with some senior researchers. The Quint could confirm that some of the people in the zoom call were indeed senior professors in American universities. We reached out to a few of them but are yet to hear back from them.
She also shared with us a screenshot of a bank account transfer of $675, which is equivalent to a little over Rs 50,000.
She said that she got the money for attending the panel meetings and said that she would be getting it every time she attended a meeting. According to her, she was on the panel to scrutinise…