Jhalawar News Desk: An Electricity Department official, who had come to take vigilance action in Bhawani Mandi area of Jhalawar district, after receiving a call from the MLA, expressed anger and hit the contract worker with a slipper. The video of the case went viral on social media, after which the department has served a show cause notice to the officer. In this case, the officer has clearly said that there is huge electricity theft in the area and whenever he goes to take vigilance action, the local leaders stop him from taking action.
The matter is of Khata Khedi village of Bhawani Mandi police station area, where Executive Engineer Shambhu Nath, who had come to take vigilance action, was asked by the MLA on phone not to take action. It is clearly visible in the video that the executive engineer is asking the employee to climb the pole but he is not climbing. In such a situation, when the MLA stopped the executive engineer, he got angry and hit the contract employee with slippers, later the contract employee ran away from the spot. The video of this entire incident is going viral on social media.
Every time I am stopped from taking action
Shambhunath Prasad, Executive Engineer of Jaipur Discom, said that whenever the team of the department goes to any village to take action, they get a call from some leader and they do not allow the action to be taken by calling. In this village, there is an 11 KV line just six feet above the ground, with a 5 KVA transformer installed for just one connection. Whereas two more transformers are installed in the village. One of which has only three connections at 10 KVA and the other three connections at 5 KVA. The transformer which the electricity department team was unloading could cause an accident at any time as it was near an 11 KVA line. An accident has already happened here in which a man died. On the other hand, two out of three transformers in the village are fake. The team has found fake connections in this village and three VCRs are also loaded. Bhawanimandi and Sunel junior engineers and assistant engineers were also included in the team. The team’s action is not wrong. But the MLAs are supporting electricity theft. Whenever the team takes action, pressure from the MLA comes. Shambhu Nath told that he got angry at the line main because he had already told that the transformer had to be removed, in such a situation he kept refusing to do the work on the pretext of broken ladder.
Was prevented from removing DP
Regarding the same matter, MLA Kaluram Meghwal said that he did not stop from taking action against electricity theft. All the connections in the village are operational and no one has any outstanding electricity bill. The engineer has been asked not to remove the DP on the phone. They wanted to shift this connection to another transformer to relocate this DP.
Shambhu Nath terror among electricity thieves
If we look at the other side of the matter, Shambhu Nath has taken action against a large number of electricity thieves. Some time back also, vigilance action was taken by Executive Engineer Shambhu Nath at the residence of former minister Nafees Ahmed. Even then the matter had become a topic of discussion. Sources reveal that Executive Engineer Shambhu Nath, being a Vigilance officer, keeps taking action continuously. And this time also a person with political influence had come to take action when this matter happened.
