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10 booked for arson, theft at power house in Haryana

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Press Trust of India Jhajjar

According to a complaint lodged by the SDO Sunil Kumar, the incident took place last night when the residents of Birohad village, infuriated over unscheduled power cuts for last several days, stormed into the power station and began misbehaving with the officials, they said.

Later, when the officials opposed them, the irate villagers set two motor-bikes on fire and also damaged the office properties.

Besides this, the villagers also took a 100 ft aluminium cable, 80 km aluminium wires, two mobile phones along with them after injuring several power house officials, they said.

Anil, Ravinder and Ajit and seven other unidentified people have been booked under various sections in this connection.

 

Further probes into the incident are on, they added.

  

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First Published: Sep 03 2012 | 5:25 PM IST

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