{"id":506552,"date":"2024-03-29T18:27:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T12:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=506552"},"modified":"2024-03-29T18:29:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T12:59:37","slug":"zomato-delivery-man-gtb-nagar-mumbai-viral-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/trending\/zomato-delivery-man-gtb-nagar-mumbai-viral-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Zomato delivery man breaks down, claims food delivery giant has blocked his account days ahead of his sister\u2019s wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Zomato delivery man from Mumbai broke down as he claimed that the food delivery giant had blocked his account days ahead of his sister\u2019s wedding. An X user, Soham Bhattarchrya met the Zomato delivery man in GTB Nagar, Mumbai and shared his story that has gone viral on social media. The delivery partner who was sobbing like anything told Soham that Zomato had blocked his account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soham Bhattacharya who is a law student, recounted encountering the distressed delivery agent, Ayush Sani, in Mumbai\u2019s GTB Nagar. He said as a result the Zomato delivery agent is battling a financial crisis. Soham\u2019s post on X was accompanied by a picture of the distressed Zomato delivery agent. In his post he urged his followers to share the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Sohamllb\/status\/1773402790104322085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1773402790104322085%7Ctwgr%5E220f248f62366c4ef7b481162b4c1ae28394582a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiatoday.in%2Ftrending-news%2Fstory%2Fzomato-reacts-as-sobbing-delivery-partner-claims-his-account-was-blocked-2520586-2024-03-29\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He wrote this guy\u2019s sister\u2019s wedding is in a few days and Zomato, Zomato Care have blocked his account! He was sobbing like anything near GTB Nagar,Mumbai going to everyone and asking for money. He told Soham that he had not eaten anything and was saving it all for her wedding. Soham asked his followers to make the post viral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Sohamllb\/status\/1773402796114743496\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ever since Soham shared the post online, it has gone viral with 3.9 million views till now which are only increasing. The post has garnered the attention not only of social media users but of Zomato as well. The official account of Zomato reacted to the post and said that they understand the impact that actions like blocking an ID have.  Zomato Care assured Soham that they would look into the matter seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to help the Zomato delivery agent, Soham shared the QR code in the comments section and requested his followers to help the man. Social media users expressed empathy for the delivery agent and tried to offer him monetary aid. In his post Soham also mentioned that the delivery agent was also working for Rapido as his Zomato account was blocked and he had to collect funds somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Popular food delivery platform Zomato is facing backlash online for suspending the account of one of its delivery partners in Mumbai. The incident was brought to light by an X user named Soham Bhattacharya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":506554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Zomato delivery man breaks down, claims food delivery giant has blocked his account days ahead of his sister\u2019s wedding","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[110599],"tags":[142921,151061],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/29181135\/zomato-_1_.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506552"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=506552"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=506552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}