Meals inspector Rajesh Vishwas dropped his Samsung telephone, price about $1200, into Kherkatta Dam in Chhattisgarh final weekend, reportedly whereas taking a selfie.
Vishwas first known as upon native divers to attempt to discover the machine and after they failed he ordered an industrial diesel pump to empty the two million-litre dam.
That a lot water is sufficient to irrigate roughly 600 hectares of land.
It took three days for Vishwas to be reunited together with his telephone because the dam was fully drained, nevertheless, the machine was fully destroyed by the water – it by no means turned again on.
The meals inspector claims there was delicate authorities info on the telephone, which is why he wanted to retrieve it.
He additionally claimed that one other authorities official gave him permission to empty it.
Nonetheless, an official from the water useful resource division accused Vishwas of misusing his place.
He has now been suspended from his function.
“Water is an important useful resource and it can’t be wasted like this,” Priyanka Shukla, a Kanker district official, advised The Nationwide newspaper.
Chhattisgarh is a state in central India.
