New Delhi, July 6 -- The viral story about an IIT Bombay graduate, who allegedly gave up a lucrative job in the US and now runs a grocery shop in his hometown to be closer to his parents, is fake.

The viral X post, shared by "Vikas Alwys", featured a picture of the viral techie in a grocery store and a carefully woven story about him.

The viral post introduced "Vivek Sharma" - a "B.Tech Computer Science gold medalist from IIT Bombay" and claimed that he had "left a $240,000-a-year ( Rs.2.9 crore) US job to run a small grocery store beneath his house and take care of his parents by staying close to them."

Sharma, the X account claimed, came from "a simple lower-middle-class family in Kanpur," and his parents used the last of their savin...