Mansa Powercom employees cut power supply to police station to avenge traffic challan

Sukhmeet Bhasin
Tribune News Service
Mansa, July 28

Powercom employees’ disconnected the power supply of Boha police station in Mansa district over nonpayment of dues worth Rs 5.59 lakh after a cop challaned one of its employee for not wearing a mask.

The incident took place on Monday when police challaned a powercom employee for not wearing a mask. Irked over this, powercom employees, under the Employees Federation and Technical Service Union Boha, staged a protest outside their Boha office.

Later, agitating employees went to Boha police station to cut the power supply as the police station had the pending bill of Rs 5.59 lakh. They returned after talking to the reader but remained deeply anguished over the challan. In the evening, they disconnected the power supply to the police station.

Later, DSP Budhalda Baljinder Singh held a meeting with powercom officials on Monday and tried to resolve the issue.

SHO, Boha police station, Sandeep Bhatti, said: “Boha Police station power bill has been outstanding, but this issue has been resolved and power supply has been restored”.