Singh passing 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 on April 6, 2020. —Reuters
NEW DELHI: 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.
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.
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