The culprit has been arrested 10 days after a customer set fire to a restaurant located in New York City, USA, because they did not serve chicken biryani.
According to the information published by the news agency New York Post, Choephel Norbu, a 49-year-old man, approached the Ittadi Garden and Grill, a Bengali restaurant located in the Queens borough of New York City, at the beginning of this month to order chicken biryani.
When the restaurant staff took the order and handed over the chicken biryani to Norbu, he asked, “What is this?” Jahana Rahman, a restaurant employee, said that he threw the biryani inside the restaurant. After spitting in the restaurant, Norbu came back to the same restaurant at 6 am the next day with a can of petrol.
When Norbu tried to set fire to the front of the restaurant by pouring petrol on it, the fire started to spread to him unexpectedly. As a result, Norbu ran away screaming from the scene. All the scenes of Norbu setting fire to the restaurant were recorded on CCTV cameras, and the New York police registered a case and searched for Norbu.
“A Queens man set a #Bangladeshi restaurant on #fire in a wild caught-on-video arson he told cops he committed because the eatery botched his order of the savory rice dish(chicken biryani), according to court records.”#NewYork #USA #Bangladesh pic.twitter.com/PkzxracIUg
— Siraj Noorani (@sirajnoorani) October 18, 2022
Norbu, who was arrested 10 days later, told the police, “I was very drunk. I ordered chicken biryani. They didn’t give me chicken biryani. I was mad, I threw it out,” he confessed.
The New York Post reported that Norbu was released from jail the day after his arrest, with the restaurant reportedly suffering $1,500 in damage.