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Published 10:15 IST, May 12th 2020

Fact Check: Did a Delhi college ask students from J&K to vacate amid Covid lockdown?

Fact check on a claim by a news portal reporting that students from J&K in Delhi are being asked by leave by the college administration

Reported by: Ananya Varma
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While the MHA has relaxed the movement of stranded migrants, students and emergency cases amid lockdown 3.0, a Jammu & Kashmir-based news portal recently reported that J&K students stranded in Delhi due to lockdown were asked by their college administration to arrange their own means of transport back home. The portal reported that the students were asked by their college to vacate the premises and arrange buses back to J&K amid the extended lockdown.

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Rating: Incorrect

The claim by the news portal has been outed as false and baseless. The administration of the University had never asked the J&K students to leave. Moreover, the administration and the University had not directed the students to arrange for their own buses back to the Union territory. Government's fact-checking page- Press Information Bureau (PIB) Fact Check on Twitter shut down this rumour calling this report 'incorrect.' 

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10:15 IST, May 12th 2020