WARANGAL: The police took into custody scores of farmers and booked cases against them for attacking electricity sub-stations at Narasampet and Mamnoor in Warangal district. The farmers were demanding uninterrupted nine-hour power supply.

At Narasampet, TDP activists staged a dharna for four hours obstructing traffic and later attacked the sub-station. They locked up the sub-station staff as a mark of protest. Some 900 farmers were taken into custody.

At Mamnoor, some 200 farmers under the aegis of the BJP and the BJYM attacked the 33/11 kV sub station and ransacked the office. They damaged the furniture and threw it outside the station.

Rasta roko staged

Later, they staged a rasta roko on the Khammam-Warangal highway. The police took into custody about 50 BJP and BJYM activists and cases were booked against 21 of them.

At least half a dozen offices of AP Transco were ransacked by the villagers and the farmers, who attacked the offices to register their protest against irregular and frequent power cuts in the district during the past one week.

The attacks that began on Thursday continued on Sunday.

Several farmers attacked the Vavilala Sub Station in Palakurthy mandal and detained the power staff for their failure to ensure regular supply. They damaged the telephone and furniture at the sub station. They said that their crops were on the verge of withering away for want of power supply.

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