Powercom team attacked in Mari Udhoke village

Our Correspondent

Tarn Taran, November 29

The team of the Powercom checking power theft at Mari Udhoke village on Saturday was attacked by a group of villagers. They stoned the employees, who somehow escaped unscathed from the spot.

Engineer Suraj Parkash, SDO of the Powercom Sub-division, Khalra, in a complaint to the Khalra police said there were reports that some of the villagers were stealing power. The employees of the team had detected it by connecting wires with the naked cables passing near the houses of some of the customers. The employees were collecting the wires of the guilty customers when they were attacked and stones were hurled at them.

The police said that as many as 30 villagers have been booked under Section 382, 353, 186, 34 of the IPC. “Four of the accused have been identified as Tarsem Singh, Daktar Badal, Rinkoo and his brother Ladi of the same village,” an official said.

Gurpreet Singh Gandiwind, state leader of the PSEB Employees Federation, sharply condemned the act and police’s inaction in many such cases.