Complaint Filed Against X User's False Claim Of Muslim NEET Toppers As 'Paper Leak Beneficiaries’ From Kerala’s Kottakal

A tweet by an X user called ‘Bharathiya Citizen’ claiming all students who had benefited from the NEET paper leak were Muslims went viral on Wednesday. The false claim was shared with a photo of a newspaper clipping of an ad featuring photos of several students who had topped the NEET 2024 exams from Universal Institute’s Kerala’s Kottakkal.

In the latest update, a cybercrime complaint has been filed against the user for “spreading this type of hatredness.”

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Timeline has received a copy of the complaint filed in the district office in Malappuram on July 4. As per the complaint, the institute called the X user’s claim “totally false” as students from all religious backgrounds study at the university. The institute also assured that no students of theirs who had topped the NEET exams were in any way related to the “scam.”

“We will be highly obliged if you could take the necessary steps to prevent the spreading of this type of hatredness,” the complaint stated.

In our previous story, Timeline had contacted Dr. Abdul Hameed, one of the people running the Kerala institute, who had informed us that the institute would be taking legal action against the false claim made by the X user against the institution and its students.

Started in 2000, Universal Institute, Kottakkal, is a medical, engineering, and IIT coaching centre that primarily focuses on NEET and JEE exams. The institute had published its NEET 2024 result in leading newspapers, including Mathrubhumi.

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While many called the post for what it was, fake news, several users did not bother to question or seek any form of evidence to support the outrageous claim. The post has received over 6.9 thousand retweets and 16 thousand likes.

Sharing a photo of the ad from the newspaper’s Thiruvananthapuram edition, the X user wrote, “The above photos are NEET ENTRANCE QUESTION PAPER LEAK BENEFICIARYS, JUST LOOK N GUESS WHO N WHICH RELIGION THER ARE? All Muslims only.”

The above photos are NEET ENTRANCE QUESTION PAPER LEAK BENEFICIARYS, JUST LOOK N GUESS WHO N WHICH RELIGION THER ARE? All Muslims only. pic.twitter.com/9hhGSQUYnV

— Bharathiya Citizen 🇮🇳 (@LawAcademics) July 3, 2024