The Noida Police have arrested the owner of a restaurant after a woman claimed that she was delivered a non-vegetarian biryani instead of the vegetarian one she had ordered online.

The incident took place during the nine-day Hindu festival of Navratri, which concluded on Sunday, the woman claimed.

In a video posted on social media, the woman, Chhaya Sharma, claimed that she had ordered a vegetarian biryani from a restaurant named Lucknowi Kabab Paratha in Greater Noida using the food delivery application Swiggy.

Sharma claimed that she realized that she was eating meat after she took a couple of bites.

Chhaya Sharma from Greater Noida ordered veg biryani from Swiggy during Navratri. But she got chicken biryani.
After eating some spoons she saw the meat piece. While she is pure vegetarian.
The owner of Lucknowi Kabab Paratha restaurant is arrested.#Navratri2025 #marketcrash pic.twitter.com/LJ4lwskKvw

— Barbarik (@Sunny_000S) April 7, 2025

“I am a pure vegetarian woman, and they have sent me this non-veg biryani during Navratri,” she said, alleging that the restaurant had done it “knowingly”.

On Monday, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Noida) Shakti Mohan Avasthy said that the police had taken on the matter based on the video_“On April 7, 2025, a video went viral on social media where a woman claimed that when she ordered vegetarian food using a delivery app, she received non-vegetarian food,” Avasthy said.

वायरल वीडियो का संज्ञान लेकर थाना बिसरख पुलिस द्वारा संबंधित रेस्टोरेंट कर्मी को हिरासत में लेकर की जा रही कार्रवाई के संबंध में @DCPCentralNoida द्वारा दी गई बाइट - pic.twitter.com/7w7iXTGqso

— POLICE COMMISSIONERATE GAUTAM BUDDH NAGAR (@noidapolice) April 7, 2025

Later the police arrested the restaurant’s owner, identified as Rahul Rajvanshi.