{"id":471235,"date":"2022-02-26T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T03:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=471235"},"modified":"2022-02-26T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T04:00:33","slug":"electricity-crisis-hc-summons-uts-deputy-commissioner-says-real-culprits-being-shielded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electricity-crisis-hc-summons-uts-deputy-commissioner-says-real-culprits-being-shielded\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity crisis: HC summons UT\u2019s deputy commissioner, says real culprits being shielded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday stated that the Chandigarh administration was perhaps trying to protect the \u201creal culprits\u201d involved in the powermen\u2019s strike \u2014 that had plunged almost all of UT into darkness for hours earlier this week \u2014 and directed the Deputy Commissioner, UT Chandigarh, to remain present on March 3, the next hearing date in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday stated that the Chandigarh administration was perhaps trying to protect the \u201creal culprits\u201d involved in the powermen\u2019s strike \u2014 that had plunged almost all of UT into darkness for hours earlier this week \u2014 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.<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471235","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=471235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}