India, Aug. 4 -- A group of young men were caught on camera trying to con a restaurant in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur into avoiding paying the bill by placing a meat bone in a plate of vegetable biryani.

An official said that while police have intervened in the matter, no formal proceedings have been initiated since there has been no complaint.

The incident occurred at the Biryani Bay restaurant at Shastri Chowk in the Cantonment Police Station area on the night of July 31.

A group of eight to ten men went to the restaurant and ordered both vegetarian and non-vegetarian biryani. Shortly after their food was served, one of the men screamed that his veg biryani had a bone in it.

The restaurant immediately called the police, who calmed the...