2023-05-28 18:14:54
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Official has entire water reservoir pumped out after mobile phone mishap
The Paralkot reservoir in the Indian district of Kanker was pumped dry within three days. A food inspector lost his cell phone while taking a selfie.
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An Indian government official had the water pumped out of a reservoir in the Kanker district. His smartphone fell into the water while taking a selfie.
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During a trip with friends, an Indian government official dropped his mobile phone in the water.
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He therefore had several hundred thousand liters pumped out of the water reservoir.
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According to him, important official information was stored on the device.
In India, a government worker had a water reservoir pumped out to retrieve a cell phone that had fallen into it. The food inspector did on a trip with friends made selfies in the state of Chhattisgarh, the Times of India reported on Saturday. First he tried to have his mobile phone found by divers. When that was unsuccessful, he had hundreds of thousands of liters of water pumped out of the Paralkot reservoir in the district of Kanker in three days, it was said.
The local television station NDTV reported that animals had often drunk from the reservoir beforehand. The inspector therefore explained that on the smartphone regulatory information had been stored and he therefore wanted to save it. In fact, the mobile phone, which was no longer working at first, was found again, it was said. However, the man has now been suspended for abuse of his position. There are also investigations against several officials who agreed to the pumping out.
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