{"id":55611,"date":"2023-06-01T00:15:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T15:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/31\/indian-official-who-drained-paraklot-reservoir-looking-mobile-fined-500-pounds"},"modified":"2023-06-01T00:15:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T15:15:04","slug":"indian-official-fined-after-draining-reservoir-in-search-of-mobile-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55611","title":{"rendered":"Indian official fined after draining reservoir in search of mobile phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rajesh Vishwas dropped phone into Paraklot reservoir in Chhattisgarh state while taking a selfie<\/p>\n<p>An Indian official who drained a reservoir to retrieve a mobile he dropped while taking a selfie has been fined 53,092 rupees (\u00a3520) by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Rajesh Vishwas, a food inspector, had dropped his new phone worth aabout \u00a31,000 into the Paralkot reservoir in Chhattisgarh state while taking a selfie during a picnic and swim with friends.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/31\/indian-official-who-drained-paraklot-reservoir-looking-mobile-fined-500-pounds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajesh Vishwas dropped phone into Paraklot reservoir in Chhattisgarh state while taking a selfieAn Indian official who drained a reservoir to retrieve a mobile he dropped while taking a selfie has been fined 53,092 rupees (\u00a3520) by the government.Rajes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55614,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55611\/revisions\/55614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}