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Amid COVID-19 Lockdown, UP Man Dials Corona Helpline Number Asking For 4 Hot Samosas With Chutney; Here’s What Happened Next

This is not the first time the Rampur helpline number has received such call. Earlier someone wanted pizza delivered at his home.

Updated: March 31, 2020 11:04 AM IST

By India.com News Desk | Edited by Surabhi Shaurya

Amid COVID-19 Lockdown, UP Man Dials Corona Helpline Number Asking For 4 Hot Samosas With Chutney; Here's What Happened Next

New Delhi: At a time when the entire country has gone under a 21-day lockdown in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a youth in Rampur dialled the coronavirus helpline number with a bizarre demand–4 hot samosas with chutney. Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter, Rampur’s District Magistrate, Aunjaneya Kumar Singh narrated how the man called in for the samosas.

“After warning, the samosas were sent to him. But for troubling the control room and officials with his request during the lockdown, the man was asked to clean a drain as part of social work”, Singh tweeted along with the pictures of the man.

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This is not the first time the Rampur helpline number has received such call. Earlier someone wanted pizza delivered at his home.

The Uttar Pradesh government has setup helpline numbers to come to the aid of the marginalised section affected by the lockdown.

Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus positive cases in India has surpassed 1200 with 32 deaths.

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