BHOPAL/GWALIOR: A Madhya Pradesh electricity department employee has been sacked and another suspended after a Gwalior family received an electricity bill of ₹3,400 crore for a month.
It was a mistake, energy minister Pradyuman Singh Tomar said on Tuesday when it emerged that two members of the family in Gwalior’s Shiv Vihar colony were hospitalised after getting the electricity department’s text message about their electricity bill.
The family said Priyanka Gupta and her father Rajendra Prasad Gupta complained of uneasiness when they received the message that they had run up a power bill of ₹34,19,53,25,293 and were hospitalised. Priyanka Gupta’s husband Sanjeev Kankane said his father-in-law’s blood pressure also shot up due to the bill.
