{"id":506484,"date":"2022-07-18T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=506484"},"modified":"2022-07-18T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T06:25:46","slug":"locals-hold-silent-protest-after-boys-electrocution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/locals-hold-silent-protest-after-boys-electrocution\/","title":{"rendered":"Locals hold silent protest after boy&#8217;s electrocution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after a 12-year-old boy from Kerala was electrocuted in northern Bengaluru\u2019s Yeshwantpur, local residents on Sunday staged a silent protest against Bescom\u2019s \u201cnegligence\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Rukman, from Kannur\u2019s Chamak village, died after wires dangling from an electricity pole fell on him while he was playing in front of a relative\u2019s house in Sharif Nagar around 4 pm on Saturday. The pole and the ground had become wet due to the incessant rains. <\/p>\n<p>According to locals, electricity to all houses in Sharif Nagar is supplied through only one pole. They had requested Bescom to erect a new pole and remove the dangerous ones but no action was taken, they added and sought action against the officials concerned. They also demanded compensation for the boy\u2019s family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after a 12-year-old boy from Kerala was electrocuted in northern Bengaluru\u2019s Yeshwantpur, local residents on Sunday staged a silent protest against Bescom\u2019s \u201cnegligence\u201d. Rukman, from Kannur\u2019s Chamak village, died after wires dangling from an electricity pole fell on him while he was playing in front of a relative\u2019s house in Sharif Nagar around 4 pm on Saturday. The pole and the ground had become wet due to the incessant rains. According to locals, electricity to all houses in Sharif Nagar is supplied through only one pole. They had requested Bescom to erect a new pole and remove the [&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-506484","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\/506484","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=506484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}