COVID-19: UP Police receives requests for samosa, pizza on helpline number amid lockdown

With just a few days down with Coronavirus lockdown in India, people have started craving for ir favorite food items. While re are people who try to control ir taste buds, ors are finding out odd ways to get ir desires fulfilled. UP Police helpline in Luckw is receiving weird phone calls where people are placing orders for ir favourite dish and one such incident took place on March 30, where y received an ‘urgent’ request for a ‘rasgulla’ from an elderly caller Ram Chandra Prasad Kesari. 

Police getting weird requests on calls

Understanding situation of public who have been restricted under strict quarantine, police officials realized that phone call demanding sweets was t a prank one.

Santosh Singh, station house officer (SHO), Hazratganj reportedly said that police reached house of caller, Kesari, with six rasgullas and found out that old man was alone at home and was in a condition of hypoglycemia (low sugar condition). He is diabetic, his face was pale and could t move. After eating some amount of rasgullas, old man became rmal.

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Apart from this, ar incident of such a sort happened in Rampur on March 29  where a man had sent an SOS to police demanding four samosas ‘with chutney’. After he made several calls to officials, police provided him with four samosas but as soon as he finished with snack, district magistrate in return of favor asked him to clean a drain as punishment.

Justifying his act, Rampur district magistrate Aunjaneya Kumar Singh said that he had decided to shame those who were misusing facility provided to people during lockdown. All those who are caught doing so will be made to sweep roads and clean drains, just way it was done by man who asked for four samosas.

judge furr added that y are receiving several calls on ir helpline number where people can be heard making bizarre demanding, asking for pizza and samosas. So, to tackle situation, police authorities have decided to punish such callers to discour ors who are taking advant of situation.

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