The JNU protest has taken people in India including netizens by storm. This has resulted in a war of words and usage of cheap tactics by certain social media users to defame Jawaharlal Nehru University and its students

Many photos have gone viral where social media users are maligning JNU students. Similarly, a post is being shared with the photograph of a bald man in a black shirt with the description that he is a 47-yr-old who is studying in JNU since 1989

That baldy looks like he's been there for a while.. ₹10 room, free food, generous stipend, condom vending machine.. What else a 'revolutionary' want? pic.twitter.com/2ygF1O0NmA — ചാത്തൂട്ടി (@chathootti) November 16, 2019

He is 47 year old Moinuddin from Kerala JNU student since 1989. https://t.co/XerRV7YOGs — Great Sardar (@hindumax) November 19, 2019

Fact Check

The person in the picture is not 47 years old Moinuddin from Kerala, but Pankaj Kumar Mishra, a 30-year-old from Uttar Pradesh who had taken admission in JNU this year. Previously, he was a student of Tata Institute of Social Sciences and had worked in in the health sector in rural Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and is currently pursuing his M.Phil in Social Medicine & Community Health from JNU.

His Twitter Profile is attached below, where he resembles the person in the black shirt in the photograph.

Meanwhile, he also put out a series of tweets hitting out at trolls who were defaming him.

Dear Troll and Bhakt, I am here only, I am Social Medicine and Community Health Research Scholar. I took admission after working 4 years in Community health in UP and Bihar. Do you have any problem.. will you people decide when one person should study?@AltNews @AMISHDEVGAN https://t.co/EA75YtJeuh — Pankaj Anarchico (@pankajkumar1927) November 20, 2019

Dear trolls, Its Me Pankaj here, When you people will stop insulting an individual on the basis of his caste, religion, gender. I don't care about whether you call me a Muslim, Dalit, slum dweller. You people need to be human at least. @AltNews @Priyankajha0 @rsprasad @rsprasad https://t.co/feDijPGdhV — Pankaj Anarchico (@pankajkumar1927) November 20, 2019

The Logical Indian reached out to Mishra, who confirmed that he joined the University this year to pursue an M.Phil course in Social Medicine and Community Health this year. He said that he was born in 1989.

The Logical Indian gained access to Mishra’s LinkedIn profile where he is said to have studied from Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj University, Kanpur from 2006 to 2009.

Conclusion

There is no doubt that the image has been shared on social media has a wrong context to it, defaming the person as well as using a wrong age to do so. Hence, the posts about him are fake and misleading.

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