{"id":397968,"date":"2021-01-30T09:22:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T03:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=397968"},"modified":"2021-01-30T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T04:48:50","slug":"did-you-permit-transformers-to-be-installed-on-footpaths-hc-asks-bbmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/did-you-permit-transformers-to-be-installed-on-footpaths-hc-asks-bbmp\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you permit transformers to be installed on footpaths? HC asks BBMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the Palike to take a clear stand on whether it permitted the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) to install transformers on footpaths. <\/p>\n<p>The direction was passed on a PIL asking for the removal of transformers located on or below the footpaths.<\/p>\n<p>A division bench headed by Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka directed the BBMP to file a specific response particularly regarding the footpaths mentioned in the petition. <\/p>\n<p>Filed by G B Athri, a retired IAF wing commander, the petition claimed that electrical installations on roads and footpaths pose grave danger to human lives and also amount to human rights violation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the Palike to take a clear stand on whether it permitted the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) to install transformers on footpaths. The direction was passed on a PIL asking for the removal of transformers located on or below the footpaths. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka directed the BBMP to file a specific response particularly regarding the footpaths mentioned in the petition. Filed by G B Athri, a retired IAF wing commander, the petition claimed that electrical installations on roads and footpaths pose grave danger to human lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}