HEIGHT OF FRIENDSHIP IN TIMES OF LOCKDOWN

Teen smuggles friend into home in a suitcase

13.04.2020

Mangaluru: With his Mangaluru apartment complex banning the entry of outsiders, a 17-year-old boy smuggled a friend into his home in a large suitcase on Sunday, reports Deepthi Sanjiv. According to police, the student’s repeated appeals for allowing his friend into the building were turned down by the apartment association. Representatives of the association denied receiving a request.

Sources told TOI that the boy left the apartment on a scooter with a huge suitcase around 2am on Sunday. He picked up his friend and brought him to the apartment complex. Outside the building, he got his friend to sit inside the suitcase and dragged it into the complex. Police said security guards noticed something unusual – a boy lugging a suitcase in the dead of the night minutes after going out on a scooter – and alerted the apartment association after daybreak. Since the boys are minor, police officers let them off with a warning.

Man sends drone to fetch paan from pal

Rajkot: Desperation to satiate addiction during the lockdown is igniting innovations in the minds of tobacco addicts. In Morbi, a person sent his drone across to his friend running a paan kiosk to fetch his favourite tobacco paan. The duo did not stop at that. They made a TikTok video of the sky delivery which has gone viral on social media.

The paans were delivered on the terrace of Neelkanth Society to 26-year-old Ravi Bhadania, who owns the drone. The paans were shipped by his friend, Hiren Gardharia, 29, who owns the paan shop barely 100 metres away from the housing society. However, the duo was arrested for violating the government’s ban on sale of tobacco products during the current lockdown period. Karanraj Vaghela, SP of Morbi, ordered a probe after the video went viral on Saturday. Paan shop owners in Rajkot have also reported thefts of several packets of cigarettes and tobacco. TNN