Five years after death, discom serves electricity bill of ₹86,000 to former MLA

NOIDA: The Pashchimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (PVVNL), a power distribution company, has served an electricity bill of whopping ₹86,000 to former MLA Thakur Chhatrapal Singh, more than five years after his death. However, Singh’s family members said that all the outstanding power dues in his name had been cleared in 2016 itself.

Singh had won the Khurja seat (Jewar was then part of it) as Socialist Party candidate in the assembly elections in 1957. According to Manjit Thakur, grandson of the former MLA, Singh had died on October 18, 2015.

The family lives at Dayanatpur village in Jewar.

Thakur, who is also a local BJP leader, said that he wrote a letter in this regard to the UP energy minister Srikant Sharma.