The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday stated that the Chandigarh administration was perhaps trying to protect the “real culprits” involved in the powermen’s strike — that had plunged almost all of UT into darkness for hours earlier this week — and directed the Deputy Commissioner, UT Chandigarh, to remain present on March 3, the next hearing date in the matter.
The HC has taken a suo-motu cognizance in the matter wherein a blackout triggered by a strike by members of electricity unions, to protest privatisation of the electricity department, had brought Chandigarh to its knees.
