False Claim On Arvind Kejriwal Getting Into IIT Through Quota Revived

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BOOM found that the viral claim is false; Rajender Singh, former dean of undergraduate studies and admissions at the institute, had told Times of India in May 2016 that IIT JEE data is destroyed after three years, leading to the institute's inability to provide the ranking at first. He also mentioned that corporate quota reservation for admission did not exist back then. The viral posts are sharing the first RTI reply to make the false claim. Following the controversy after the initial RTI enquiry, IIT Kharagpur responded to yet another RTI enquiry, as reported by Deccan Herald in July 2016, where they clarified that Kejriwal's JEE ranking - which was earlier untraceable - was found to be 563 "after in-depth search from admission register". BOOM had previously debunked the same claim back in April 2023 when the same RTI photo was being shared.