XEN, SDO thrashed by irate mob
Tribune News Service

Patiala, August 10
Irked over tripping of power supply in the Badungar area of Patiala city, a group of residents allegedly thrashed four Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) officials, including an executive engineer, an SDO, a junior engineer and linemen, who had gone to the area to rectify the fault in the power supply lines over there.

The incident took such an ugly turn that one of the assistant linemen, Dina Lal, suffered serious injuries as his jaw allegedly got fractured when some of the attackers smacked his face.

A complaint lodged by XEN Mohan Lal with the police pointed out that a couple of officials, led by JE Gurmail Singh and Gurdarshan Das Batish, had gone to look into a power tripping complaint in the Badungar area in their official vehicle.

The fault had erupted near the gurdwara of the area, where a number of residents had already converged.

As soon as the PSEB team reached the spot, a section of the crowd started beating them. The incident was reported to SDO Amandip Singh who reached there along with some more officials to look into the matter.

However, they were also beaten up by the irate mob resulting in injuries to the XEN and other officials.

A case has been registered under Sections 379, 332, 353 and 186 of the IPC against the accused.