Power men strike work as FIRs registered against MLC, ExEn

The Georgetown police registered an FIR against BJP MLC Surendra Chaudhary and around 20 of his unidentified aides in connection with the alleged assault on power department executive engineer of Tagore Town Manoj Agarwal on Friday.

Another case has been registered against Agarwal on the complaint of the MLC under different sections of the IPC, including SC/ST Act.

Power department officials and employees, under the Vidyut Karmchari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti, staged a protest against the assault on Agarwal and handed over a memorandum to chief engineer Vinod Gangwar on Saturday, with a warning that they would boycott work if no action was taken soon against the MLC.