An Indian official who made headlines after he drained a dam to retrieve his phone has been fined by the government.
Rajesh Vishwas has been ordered to pay 53,092 rupees ($642; £519) for pumping out millions of litres of water without seeking permission from authorities.
He had dropped the device while taking a selfie and claimed it needed retrieving as it contained sensitive government data.
But he has been accused of misusing his position.
The food inspector dropped his Samsung phone, worth about 100,000 rupees, into Kherkatta Dam in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh last week.
After local divers couldn’t find the phone, he paid for a diesel pump to be brought in, Mr Vishwas said in a video statement quoted in the media. The pump ran for several days, emptying out thousands of litres of water, but by the time the phone was found, it was too waterlogged to work.
Credit: bbc.com
