Tarun Sahu's year-old Chhattisgarh Housing Board file remained missing until he walked into the Bilaspur office, emptied a packet of almonds on Estate Officer L.P. Banjare's desk, and told her to eat some so she might remember where she'd kept it. The file was located within hours. Banjare's response was to file a complaint alleging 'mental harassment' and describing the dry fruit as a weapon.
After twelve months of following up on a single housing file, Bilaspur resident Tarun Sahu concluded that the Chhattisgarh Housing Board's filing system operated on a cognition deficit and arrived with treatment: a packet of almonds, emptied live on Estate Officer L.P. Banjare's desk, with the suggestion she snack on them to jog her memory. The video went viral in hours. So, coincidentally, did the missing file — located inside CGHB's own Tifra office the same day Sahu shamed them on camera. The Board attached Banjare and her assistant Poonam Banjare to headquarters, which in Indian bureaucratic taxonomy means 'punished by being asked to do nothing.' Banjare then filed her own complaint accusing Sahu of disrespect, mental harassment, and — in the single most honest admission of the episode — arriving armed with a weapon. A second video has since surfaced allegedly showing her demanding bribes from other applicants whose files she presumably also couldn't find.