Gurgaon founder of Knot Dating slams Bangalore man for criticism: 'Don’t try to be over smart'

Knot Dating co-founder and CEO Jasveer Singh has responded to allegations from a Bengaluru-based user who claimed to have bypassed the platform’s verification system using false credentials. The user, who goes by Ankit Jxa on X, shared that he was accepted into the exclusive invite-only matrimonial app despite submitting a fake name, random income details, and unrelated photos.

“I got accepted into Knot Dating,” Ankit wrote. “They didn’t verify my income. I put in a random number and no one cared. They didn’t verify my name or age with my government document. I wrote a random name and some weird pictures and got accepted. There is no AI here.”

Singh, in a sharply worded response on X, dismissed the claims and clarified the circumstances. “Oh hello, listen… don’t try to be over smart. You got in because you DMed me directly asking for approval,” he wrote. “I shared it with my team, and they verified it only because it came from me. That’s not a loophole—that’s you getting special treatment.”

Speaking to Moneycontrol after his post went viral, Singh admitted the approval was a result of internal miscommunication. “The team mistakenly treated the request as founder-cleared and went ahead with verification. It was a process slip. We’ve since fixed this gap so no profile can skip verification, regardless of the source.”

Singh emphasised that Knot Dating does not allow users to manually enter key personal details. “We don’t even have input fields for name, gender, date of birth, or hometown. All of this is retrieved directly from DigiLocker using government ID. Only our internal team can make changes manually.”