Rishabh Pant Supports X User’s Fundraiser For College Fees. Drama Unfolds Next. What's The Matter?

Rishabh Pant’s support for a college student’s fundraiser faces an intriguing twist, with the student announcing he will refund the donations after facing online trolling and allegations of fraud.

Rishabh Pant supports an X user’s fundraiser for college fees but student decides to refund donation. Here's why.

Source : PTI

Rishabh Pant, the star Indian wicketkeeper batter helped a boy with his college fees for the engineering studies through a post on social media. However, the boy afterwards announced that he will refund the money to the Delhi Capital captain.

On Tuesday (August 27),  a social media user under the account name of ‘True India Scenes’ urged Rishabh Pant for help with his college fees and asked the Indian cricketer to consider supporting his self-funding campaign on X (formerly Twitter). The X user also included a link to a fundraising website, where the campaign is listed under the name Kartikey Maurya, who is pursuing an engineering degree at Chandigarh University.

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“Hello @RishabhPant17 Sir I’m a student struggling to fund my engineering education. Your support can change my life. Please consider helping or sharing my campaign. Your kindness would mean everything to me,” the user wrote tagging Pant in the post. 

Hello @RishabhPant17 Sir I’m a student struggling to fund my engineering education. Your support can change my life. Please consider helping or sharing my campaign: https://t.co/w09mqaYq5D
Your kindness would mean everything to me. #CrowdfundingCampaign #Cricket

— True India Scenes (@TrueIndScenes) August 26, 2024

Pant Supports Social Media User's Campaign Appealing For Financial Assistance

To the user’s delight, Pant responded to the post with a heartwarming message and also supported the fundraising campaign.

“Keep chasing your dreams. God has better plans always tc,” Pant wrote in response.

Keep chasing your dreams 👌👌 . God has better plans always tc

— Rishabh Pant (@RishabhPant17) August 26, 2024

The user took to X again thanking Pant for his assistance and included a screenshot of the fundraising website which confirms Pant’s support to the campaign.

Thanks a lot @RishabhPant17 Bhaiya 🙂. pic.twitter.com/cIAp5AR9p1

— True India Scenes (@TrueIndScenes) August 27, 2024

User Decides To Refund Donations After Facing Online Trolling

However, after the news of his fundraising campaign went viral on social media, the user announced that he would refund all the money to Pant, just hours after initially thanking the cricketer for supporting his fundraiser. The decision was prompted by persistent online trolling and abuse.

Here's what the user said:

People calling me a scam don't know that Ketto doesn't list your fundraiser without valid proof. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.

— True India Scenes (@TrueIndScenes) August 27, 2024

This happened after social media users suggested that Pant has just been defrauded and than the user asking for money is not actually a student but a scam.

Here are some of the posts alleging that the user is a fraud:

He is Kartikey maurya from Chandigarh
He plays cricket bet on illegal websites and looses all money so he started to do scam

Pure soul @RishabhPant17 just donated him 90 thousand rs , how he will feel when he knows he got scammed

And what about your authenticity @ketto pic.twitter.com/AnLHlNUKWg

— Harsh shekhawat (@wordofshekhawat) August 27, 2024

@RishabhPant17 Bhai ap acche insan ho lekin ye scam tha pic.twitter.com/mQLmakN5EF

— Rahemat_18_7🇮🇳 (@iam_Rahemat) August 27, 2024