Overview

• A video recorded from a passing car showed Shoaib, a roadside eatery cook in Meerut’s Kurali village, spitting on rotis as he prepared them for customers.
• The clip went viral, prompting widespread outrage that led the Jani police to act on orders from the district’s Senior Superintendent of Police.
• Police said Sub-Inspector Shiv Kumar Sharma and constables Brajesh and Kuldeep apprehended him near the Jani canal bridge on May 26.
• He was produced before a local court the same day.
• Officials have charged him under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for spreading infectious disease; disturbing communal harmony; promoting enmity in an act they say threatened public health.