Upset of power cuts, man calls up Karnataka power minister and abuses him

March 01, 2016 14:57

Bugged by frequent power cuts, a 46-year-old resident of Sullia taluk in Dakshina Kannada district went ahead and called up Karnataka Power Minister D K Shivakumar and the Mangaluru Electricity Supply Company (MESCOM) engineer incharge and abused them in vulgar language for being responsible for the frequent power cuts.

The act, obviously, has landed him in jail.

Sai Giridhar Rai, the accused was arrested by the Dakshina Kannada police on the same day after the MESCOM officials filed a complaint.

"Giridhar, former president of the Bellare Traders Association on Sunday evening around 8 pm called the minister and the MESCOM official and abused them over telephone," said a source at Sullia police station.

"The place faces over 6-7 hours of power outage a day. This man might have gotten drunk and called up the minister and abused him," he said, adding, "We had to enter the house through the roof because he refused to open the door."

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