Greater Noida Power department officer shot dead over power supply interruption
Saurabh Kumar
Greater Noida : Yesterday evening late in the evening, a electric substation officer was shot dead by a local men after a heated argument over the electricity supply which got disrupted because of the storm that hit the city yesterday evening.
Incident is of Badalpur Police station where Satveer Singh Tomar who was posted at Dhoom Manikpur Power sub station. On late in the evening some people gathered at the substation and started argument with him over the power supply as it got disrupted after the storm came in the evening. when the victim tried to oppose them for their behavior one the men shoot him three bullets one after another leading him to death on the spot. There after the accused flee from the spot. Later the main accused who fired the bullets was identified allegedly as Nitu.
After getting news of this incident staffs of electricity department got furious started protesting and also disrupted the power supply of that region. After SP Rural reached the spot and assured them of proper action and somehow managed to revive the power supply. But after 2 hours electricity staff again disrupted the power supply demanding immediate arrest of the accused.
Now police had started search operation for the arrest of the accused. Separate teams of Dadri and Badalpur Police station s are combing in the area. They also raided over the relative’s house of accused and around half a dozen suspects were also arrested. A large number of police personnel were deployed to Badpura Village to maintain Law and order situation.