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New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh police on Monday (April 7) arrested a restaurant owner in Noida for allegedly delivering chicken biryani to a customer who had ordered vegetarian biryani through a food delivery app.>
The action against the restaurant owner happened after the woman who had ordered vegetarian biryani claimed in a video posted on social media that the restaurant, Lucknowi Kabab Paratha in Sector 2, sent her a non-vegetarian biryani even though she ordered a vegetarian biryani, reported Indian Express.>
“…I also had one or two bites from it. I am a pure vegetarian and in Navratri, they have sent non-vegetarian biryani… They have done it knowingly,” said the woman in the video.>
Shakti Mohan Avasthy, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Central Noida said that the Noida police launched an investigation based on the viral video and called the restaurant staff for questioning.>
“Acting on the basis of the complaint of the woman, the police registered an FIR and arrested Rahul Rajvanshi, a resident of Ecovillage-1 of Central Noida’s Bisrakh. A sample of the food has been sent to the food security officer for further investigation,” said the Noida police in an official statement.>