India, Nov. 10 -- US assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon on Sunday reacted to a claim alleging discriminatory hiring practices at Coca-Cola.

The claim came from an X account, which had tagged the official and personal handles of Dhillon when making the post. HT.com was unable to independently verify this claim.

"ALLEGED DISCRIMINATORY HIRING PRACTICES AT COCA-COLA AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE," the profile claimed. The post claimed that a person by the name of 'David' had sent in an application to the beverage company, and cited 20 years of experience. However, the application was allegedly rejected the next day, the post claimed.

It went on to allege that the same individual sent another application where ...