India tech firms warned not to abuse their exceptions to national coronavirus lockdown

"contracts carrying penalties"

It seems obvious to me that, given the period, a judge will not rule in favor of a client complaining that the job wasn't done on time.

It should be useless to even try. Nobody is going to be on time for a few months at least. This lockdown is going to throw plenty of schedules into the shredder.

Fat chance

A friend of mine worked in the electrical supply industry. He recounted the Indian mentality of risking their lives to reverse the live lines to their meters with the attitude that it was the respnsibility of the electric companies to catch them.

I coudl detail more, but the upshot is that if you think the UK was bad to ignore BoJo's orders, in India disobediance would likely be considered the norm.

One bar owner complied with the "distance of door from pavement" ruling by creating a snaking customer path outside the entrance. Ingenious. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/25/alcohol-ruling-drives-indian-bar-goers-round-bends

Sounds familiar

As managers of property portfolios with telecommunications base stations on the roof, we are seeing all the MNO's pushing their key worker status to carry out routine maintenance, H&S and other non essential work. Given that the occupants of many of the buildings are themselves key workers (emergency services) our clients are naturally unimpressed with this irresponsible behaviour. Just goes to show that you cant make a leopard change its spots.