Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Sept 12: The Forum of Engineers and Technical Staff, with Engineers and staff of different wings of Power Development Department today held strong protest at DC office Udhampur against the alleged manhandling of Technician on duty.
They said that Technician Chet Ram, while on official duty at Receiving Station Battal Udhampur was allegedly manhandled by Police officials from Majalta Police Post who came to the receiving station to enquire about the status of the 33KV Line, which was faulty.
The whole incident happened at 11 pm in the intervening night when the Technical staff was on the job locating the fault on the line. Even as the Technician on duty informed the cops about the status, the latter took him into illegal detention and kept him in Police lock up during the night hours without responding to the calls of the immediate superiors. The said Technician was beaten up in the Police Post and could be rescued only after Assistant Executive Engineer came to the Police Station.
Condemning the incident, all the PDD union representatives along with the Executive Engineer PDD met Deputy Commissioner Udhampur and demanded stringent action against the erring police officials in time bound manner so that morale of the employees of PDD who are working in very adverse conditions is safeguarded.
After listening to the PDD employees, the Deputy Commissioner in consultation with the SSP Udhampur constituted a fact finding committee into the incident.
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