Indian Official Drains Reservoir to Retrieve Lost Phone

An Indian food inspector, Rajesh Vishwas, was suspended after he dropped his Samsung phone into the Kherkatta Dam and ordered it to be emptied to retrieve it. Workers pumped millions of liters of water out of the dam, which could have irrigated 1,500 acres of land during the scorching summer. Vishwas claimed the smartphone contained sensitive government information, but it was too waterlogged to work in the end. He denied "misusing" his position, saying the drained water was from an overflow section of the dam and was not "in usable condition."