Phone retrieved - damaged from a three-day soak - after 2.1 million litres of water pumped out. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW DELHI - As far as instances of bureaucrats abusing their power in India go, this latest incident may have plumbed a new depth.
After local divers failed to retrieve his phone, Mr Vishwas, a food inspector and a junior-level officer in the state bureaucracy, deployed two diesel pumps to drain around 2.1 million litres of water from the tank, reportedly enough to irrigate around 607ha of farmland. According to Mr Vishwas, the divers were unable to recover his phone as the water was too deep for them at a level of around 10 feet or 3m. “They said that if the level of the water could be reduced by around two to three feet, they could surely take out the phone,” he told news channel NDTV 24X7.
A local village representative told the TV channel that the water discharged was a “loss to farmers”.
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