NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Three days after India imposed a nationwide lockdown, Devender Singh revved up his motorcycle to deliver meat and eggs to customers – but his heart was in his mouth as he closed in on a police barricade on a deserted New Delhi road.
Delivery worker Devender Singh, who works for Licious, an online meat store, passes a order to a customer, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, April 6, 2020. Picture taken on April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Beatings of delivery workers by overzealous police after Prime Minister Narendra Modi late last month suddenly imposed the world’s biggest lockdown to contain the coronavirus had unnerved him.
“That day, it felt like my time to get thrashed had come,” Singh, 30, told Reuters on a quiet summer afternoon as he was out making deliveries.
“But what I was expecting didn’t happen. The police were very friendly – they just asked me where I was…
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