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Hyderabad: In a major relief to scores of workers, food delivery company Swiggy on Monday announced that all penalty amounts charged or levied on delivery partners on May 22 will be refunded. The development comes as a huge relief for the personnel, who bore the brunt of police excesses in Hyderabad last week on Saturday when the cops tightened their vigil during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown.
Owing to the police suddenly stopping food delivery boys, in spite of the state COVID-19 lockdown guidelines allowing them to work, many of the workers faced a penalty from the company by default for missing deliveries to customers. The fault, of course, was not theirs but was due to the arbitrary actions of the police in across the Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda police commissionerates. Swiggy’s will ease the financial pressure off of them.
Responding to the development, the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union on Monday tweeted, “@TGPWU thanks @mahmoodalitrs@asadowaisi@KTRTRS@TelanganaDGP@CPHydCity@cpcybd@RachakondaCop Telanagana Police to listening our demand & releasing the vehicles of delivery workers at the earliest.
