Cricket fans in Bahraich jostle for free biryani after Virat Kohli’s century
Cricket fans jostled at an eatery in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich after the owner announced free biryani after Virat Kohli hit century.
Bahraich (UP): Cricket fans jostled at an eatery owner in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich after it announced a discount equal to the runs made by cricketer Virat Kohli.
Virat’s 50th century at Mumbai’s Wankhede stadium on Wednesday led to a near stampede at the eatery selling biryani in the Tikoni Bagh area of Dehat police.
With Kohli scoring a century, the discount came out to be 100 per cent, which meant the plate of chicken and mutton biryani came for free, prompting a huge rush to avail the offer.
As visuals of the offer went viral on social media, the queue only swelled and people were seen jostling to get into the queue to grab hold of a plate of biryani.
Before the restaurant owner exhausted his stuff, cops had to be called to control the crowd.
The situation turned tense after those waiting in the queue started demanding the restaurant owner to arrange for more biryani. Ultimately, the owner had to chain down his restaurant to avoid any kind of vandalism.
SHO, Kotwali Dehat, Manoj Kumar Pandey, said that since a large crowd had gathered outside the eatery, a police team was sent to avoid any kind of law-and-order situation.
The owner said he had no idea that Kohli would score a century and was caught off guard by the huge rush. He said he would continue to offer discounts on the biryani but would make sure that the arrangements are better in place next time.
In UP’s #Bahraich (Tikoni Bagh area), a restaurant owner offered #briyani on discount % equal to #ViratKohli‘s run.Following his century , large number of gourmandizer rush to avail the offer, which led to stamped like situation & local police was called to control the crowd pic.twitter.com/dxyNYtePVK
— Arvind Chauhan ️ (@Arv_Ind_Chauhan) November 15, 2023
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