India, April 30 -- An anonymous post shared on Reddit yesterday claimed that several students at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi took ill after eating food served in the hostel mess. However, the institute has denied this version of events, claiming that residents of a boys' hostel ate sweets procured from an "outside vendor" and began to display symptoms of food poisoning.

In a statement to HT.com, IIT Delhi confirmed that one exam had been deferred by a week in view of the gastro-related outbreak.

In the now-viral Reddit post, a person claiming to be a student of IIT Delhi said he and several other residents of his hostel began displaying symptoms of food poisoning after eating litti chokha in the mess. The ...