Covid-19: Fruit vendor in UP's Mathura picked up by police on complaint of licking fruits

Anuja Jaiswal | TNN | Apr 6, 2020, 20:42 IST

AGRA: A 25-year-old fruit seller was picked up by Mathura police on Monday after a local resident lodged a complaint that the vendor was allegedly licking bananas before selling them.
Local residents claimed that they saw the fruit seller, Bunty, licking bananas and when they confronted him, he tried to run away from the area but fell on the ground. By the time police reached there and took him to the hospital with the help of medical staff.
SP (city) Ashok K Meena told TOI that Bunty, son of Ajmeri, was later sent to a hospital in Vrindavan for Covid-19 tests and will be quarantined till the arrival of his report.
Meena said that since no CCTV or video footage of the episode is available, action would be taken after verifying the facts.
Incidentally, another banana seller, Shahadat, who was watching the residents confronting Bunty from a distance in Mathura’s Laxmi Nagar link road, panicked and threw all the bananas from his cart and ran away.
Bunty has however, denied licking the bananas and told police that the local residents had surrounded him and accused him of doing so because of any reason.
Last week, a fruit seller in Madhya Pradesh, was arrested by police, after a video went viral showing him spitting on the fruits that he was selling. The social media users claimed that the man in the video was spitting and putting his saliva on the fruits, thereby, infecting them.