Indian official drains dam to recover phone

You know what it’s like, you’re taking a cheeky selfie when suddenly you drop your phone into a reservoir, but you also have the power to drain the reservoir, so you do. We’ve all been there. <br> <br>Rajesh Vishwas, a food inspector from Chhattisgarh, India, did just that, dropping his phone in the Kherkatta Dam. After uttering the name of the thing he’d just dropped his phone in (and we don’t mean ‘Kherkatta’), he did what any self-respecting, taxpayer-money-wasting government official would do: order the reservoir to be drained. Three days and two million liters of water wasted later, the phone was recovered. Unsurprisingly, it was waterlogged beyond repair. This was after he sent in a team of divers, again, at the taxpayer’s expense. <br> <br>Unsurprisingly, people noticed this, because two million liters of water is a lot of water [citation needed]. It’s enough water to water 1,500 acres, in fact. And so, the questions started. Questions like ‘how does a food inspector have authority to drain a dam?’ and ‘isn’t that water supposed to be used to water crops and keep people alive?’ According to Vishwas, he obtained permission, and that water wasn’t suitable for farming use anyway. However, by draining it into a nearby canal, he made it suitable. Because that makes perfect sense. Vishwas also claimed the phone contained ‘sensitive government data.’ Again, he’s a food inspector. <br> <br>Vishwas has since been suspended, pending an investigation. <br> <br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br> <br>Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. <br>Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews <br>Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews <br>Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com