Mysuru corporator’s husband, 3 of family booked for affray

Mysuru: Mysuru City Corporation ward 63 corporator Sharadamm’s husband Eshwara and three members of a JP Nagar family have been charged with affray and criminal intimidation for quarrelling in a public place, here on Thursday.
Vidyaranyapuram police have booked Eshwar and Drakshyani and two of her sons.
An argument broke out between Eshwara and Drakshyani and her two sons, near their house, after a power line drawn underground snapped while a civic work was being carried out, police stated. An UGD pipeline was being laid on 20th cross in JP Nagar, when workers accidentally damaged the electrical cable, leading to power disruption, they stated.
Drakshyani told police that she called Sharadamma to inform her about this, but minutes later her husband turned up at the spot and started arguing with them. He left the spot, and again came back around 3.30 pm in an inebriated state along with his aides to Drakshyani’s house. Drakshayni lodged a complaint with the police that Eshwara them.
Sharadamma alleged that after the power line drawn to their house got disconnected during UGD work, Drakshyani’s family got infuriated and started abusing them, as well as the workers. The workers then stopped the work. Claiming that she had inspected the spot and had got the power line restored, but still Drakshyani and her family continued bothering them over phone, and abused her husband when he visited the spot, she stated.