By Mattea Bubalo
BBC News

A government official in India has been suspended after he ordered a reservoir to be drained to retrieve his phone.
It took three days to pump millions of litres of water out of the dam, after Rajesh Vishwas dropped the device while taking a selfie.
By the time it was found, the phone was too water-logged to work.
Mr Vishwas claimed it contained sensitive government data and needed retrieving, but he has been accused of misusing his position.
The food inspector dropped his Samsung phone, worth about $1,200 (100,000 rupees), into Kherkatta Dam, in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, on Sunday.
After local divers failed to find it, he paid for a diesel pump to be brought in, Mr Vishwas said in a video statement quoted in Indian media.
He said he had verbal permission from an official to drain "some water into a nearby canal", adding that the official said it "would in fact benefit the farmers who would have more water".
The pump ran for several days, emptying out some two million litres (440,000 gallons) of water - reportedly enough to irrigate 6 sq km (600 hectares) of farmland.
His mission was stopped when another official, from the water resource department, arrived following a complaint.
"He has been suspended until an inquiry. Water is an essential resource and it cannot be wasted like this," Priyanka Shukla, a Kanker district official, told The National newspaper.
Mr Vishwas has denied misusing his position, and said that the water he drained was from the overflow section of the dam and "not in usable condition".
But his actions have drawn criticism from politicians, with the state's opposition BJP party's national Vice-President tweeting, "When people are depending upon tankers for water facility in in scorching summers, the officer has drained 41 lakh litres which could have been used for irrigation purpose for 1,500 acres of land."

Source:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65726193

Wonderful....

Rostikol:
If an African official had done this, this thread would have been filled with people condemning ''the black man''.

Nation of self-haters.

so what's the difference between India and Africa?are they not corruption -infested sore pus?

That fellow life is finished.

He was even trying to Justify his actions by saying "the farmers needed waters" so he had to wait for his phone to fall inside a dam before supplying the farmers the water they needed? Funny how some people sound.

They own choice

Rostikol:
If an African official had done this, this thread would have been filled with people condemning ''the black man''.

Nation of self-haters.

True. We Africans think we must beyond any blame.
|BTW , we did not start this retarded and lost war in Ukraine, we are not spending billions of $$$$$ every day funding it either.

Septagon:
so what's the difference between India and Africa?are they not corruption -infested sore pus?

SO WHY HAVE YOU NOT CONDEMNED THE INDIANS AND CALLED THEM RACIST NAMES LIKE YOU DO AFRICANS WHEN THEY DO SIMILAR SHHIT?

IS IT BECAUSE YOU’RE A FCKING SLAVE?