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Two remanded to judicial custody

Staff Reporter

Anticipatory bail plea rejected

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has remanded two persons to 14 days in judicial custody in connection with a case of assault, wrongful confinement, causing serious physical injury and obstruction of duty filed by power distribution company BSES against them while another court rejected the anticipatory bail application of a single-point distribution contractor, Kamesh Aggarwal, and issued arrest warrants against him in the same case.

The first information report in the case was registered at the Sangam Vihar police station and while two of the accused were arrested by the police, the other two are still at large. In the complaint, BSES had stated that Kamesh Aggarwal was one of the 22 SPD contractors operating in its Sangam Vihar area. As SPD contractor, it said, Aggarwal, besides distributing electricity to 1,000 residents (after buying it in bulk from BSES), was also supposed to collect payments from the residents and pay BSES as per the agreement.

However, Aggarwal has been accused of regularly defaulting on payment and ignoring reminders and disconnection notices sent by the company that was finally constrained to disconnect the supply when the dues crossed the Rs.35 lakh mark.

Then on July 17 evening, the BSES complaint alleged, when a BSES team went to disconnect the power supply of Kamesh Aggarwal, he along with three other persons attacked the team, resulting in critical injuries to Assistant Manager T.R. Benival and Junior Engineer Annant Saran, who had to be hospitalised.

BSES said that in the past four years contracts of more than 250 SPDs have been terminated and customers have directly taken up BSES connections in such colonies.

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