Nalgonda: Power supply was interrupted in different parts of the city of Nalgonda for three hours from 09:00 to 12:00 on Saturday due to technical problems, which gave the citizens a difficult time.
While many people were spreading the rumors, the power outage was attributed to protests by the employees of the electricity department against the high-handedness of the police’s action against these people for attending duties during the lock-up period, but the officials of both the electricity and the police departments wasted these claims.
It all started when the police staff hit the line stations in the city of Nalgonda and also at Kattangur when the latter went to attend their duty on Saturday. When the power supply was interrupted, rumors began to spread false news attributing the power outage to the protests by the electricity workers against the police’s arrogance. At the fuel, the footage of the policemen who defeated the motorists at the Clock Tower Center in the city of Nalgonda went viral on social media.
Upon learning of the incident, Superintendent of Police AV Ranganath took action and spoke to the officers of the electricity department who informed him about the technical problem that had interrupted the power supply. He also spoke to TS Transco chairman and managing director D Prabhakar Rao and assured him that he had acted against the police personnel who had beaten the line managers of the electricity department at various places in the district. He said the employees of the electricity department should take their identity card with them as they exit during the exclusion city.
The Telangana Electricity Workers Association (TEEA) has taken up the issue with SP AV Ranganath for the necessary action against the police staff due to their riotous behavior. “There is no truth in the rumors. We only lodged a complaint with the police authorities but did not launch a protest. “There was a power outage due to technical problems and it was not intentional,” VinEA Chowdari, district president of TEEA, told Telangana Today.
Laboratory technicians claim police are arrogant
The association of laboratory technicians also claimed that the police had indiscriminately beaten the laboratory technicians, who were to collect blood samples from the patients at the hospitals. The members of the association also submitted a memorandum to the Neelagiri Unit president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to represent the Superintendent of Police for exemption to the staff of diagnostic laboratories of the lock.
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Source: Telangana Today