Electricity crisis: HC summons UT’s deputy commissioner, says real culprits being shielded

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.