Residents beat up PSEB checking staff
Sushil Goyal
Tribune News Service

Sangrur, August 30
A member of the checking squad of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) was allegedly beaten up by residents of Haripura basti here last night.

The squad went to the basti to check domestic electricity connections for checking power theft cases in that area.

Talking to The Tribune, Additional Superintending Engineer (SE) of Sangrur Division (Distribution), PSEB, DPS Grewal said, after receiving reports about power theft in Haripura basti, the checking squad, comprising the SDO of Badrukhan subdivision, PSEB, Jagdev Singh, junior engineer (JE) Chanan Singh and the line staff visited the basti.

He said the checking squad detected a case of power theft in a house. Subsequently, some persons from the basti gathered there and started calling members of the checking squad “thieves”, he added.

He said the residents of the area allegedly beat up JE Chanan Singh, who sustained internal injuries.

He had been admitted to the local civil hospital. The persons even snatched a motorcycle, a mobile phone and a purse from Chanan Singh, he added.

The police had not registered a case as it had not received a written complaint from the PSEB.