Nainital tours scream at locals after being asked not to litter in viral video: ‘Mind your own business’ | Trending

A couple of tours in Naintial were filmed screaming at people who allegedly asked them not to litter on the road. Footage of the argument was shared online Instagram user Shinjini Sengupta, whose ser confronted the tours after they allegedly threw an empty packet and tissues on the road instead of putting them in a dustbin. Tours in Nainital, slammed for littering, argue with locals.(Instagram/@_dark_hues) Sengupta told HT.com that her ser confronted two women for throwing a box of cake and an empty packet on the roadside. She said that the incident took place at Nainital’s Lover’s Point, a popular tour destination. Here’s what happenedAccording to Sengupta, the two women cut a cake and threw tissues on the roadside instead of putting them in a dustbin. This happened on December 14 in Nainital. The women were accompanied a man in a car. Sengupta’s video shows the women yelling after being confronted about littering on the roads. The car in which they arrived at Lover’s Point bore a Lucknow number plate. Shinjini Sengupta was holidaying in Nainital with her ser when she saw the two women throwing tissues on the road after cutting a cake. The elder of the two women then threw the cake packet on the road too. At this point, Sengupta’s ser politely asked the women to discard their waste in a dustbin. “They answered, ‘There’s no dustbin. Dikhao kahan hai. Hai hi nahi, etc etc,” she told HT.com. Roughly translated, it means that the tours insed that there was no dustbin in sight. “My ser insed that the shop next door is an eatery, they must have bins (you can see ‘use dustbin’ written on the railing also in the video),”Sengupta told HT.com. However, the women remained adamant about not throwing their waste in the dustbin. They allegedly insed that the road was already dirty and one more waste item would not make a difference. Confronted localsAt this point, a local shopkeeper stepped into the picture and asked the women to put the cake box in the dustbin as authorities penalise local shopkeepers for littering. “He specifically requested them to put the waste in the bin, citing that police fines the shops for litter. Their driver then threw the bag into the valley,” Sengupta said. Seeing this, the shopkeeper remarked that he had asked for the box to be put in a dustbin, not thrown into the valley. The exchange escalated into a heated argument, a snippet of which was shared on Instagram Sengupta. The video shows the younger of the two women yelling at the people who confronted her for littering. “Mind your own business,” she was heard saying in the video. According to Sengupta, a female shopkeeper also intervened and explained the benefits of keeping the area clean. However, the tours refused to pay heed. Backlash onlineThe argument between the tours and locals has gone viral on Instagram, where many slammed the tours for littering. “Shame on those who litter everywhere. And worst part is they call themselves educated,” wrote one commenter. “People will never learn unless they are heavily fined,” another opined. Several identified the tours as belonging to Lucknow from their license plate and asked that they be fined heavily.