With Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking all the citizens of the country to come out and light candles, diyas or torch lights at 9 pm on April 5, 2020, for a period of 9 minutes to show solidarity against the coronavirus outbreak, there were unusual scenes with some people taking it too far by bursting crackers.

Former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan took to micro-blogging site Twitter to state that everything went well until the bursting of crackers began. This statement, however, did not go down too well well with some netizens who then started abusing him.