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Fake viral post claims all the top 5 NEET 2020 candidates are Muslims

Written by Abdul M

After NEET 2020 results were announced, Shoaib Aftab from Orissa has been in the news. He has topped the exam with 720/720 creating history in NEET exam. Eversince the news broke out , a claim is going viral across social media that there are four more Muslims who have been topped the exam followed by Shoaib.

Haazim (@ItsHaazim), a Twitter user has shared the claim, he tweeted “First time in history top 5 ranks are held by Muslims, Rank 1 – Shoaib Aftab Rank 2 – Zeeshan Ashraf Rank 3 – Yasir Hameed Rank 4 – Sajid Mehmood Rank 5 – Sana Mir (Archive). There are many  Twitter users who shared the same claim.  here

The claim is viral on Facebook too. Find more claims here  (more)

FactO Check:

National Testing Agency(NTA) has declared NEET results today in their portal. News of Shoaib Aftab topped the test with 720/720 marks had created history in NEET examination. To find the viral claim we did a keyword search of NEET top 5 names and found an article published by career360.

According to the article published by career360.com, in the list of top 10 male toppers the top 5 names are, SOYEB AFTAB, VINEET SHARMA, SATWIK GODARA,SRIJAN R, KARTHIK REDDY.

We also checked further and found another article by Shiksha.com. The top 5 names are not the same as viral claim.

Conclusion: According to our findings and sources available on the internet, the viral claims of top 5 candidates of NEET 2020 are Muslims is false and misleading

 

 

 

 

 

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Abdul M

Fact-Checker @Facto_News, Political Analyst, Social Media Expert

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