{"id":518048,"date":"2022-08-30T10:41:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T05:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=518048"},"modified":"2022-08-30T12:43:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T07:13:57","slug":"bescoms-vigilance-cell-cracks-down-on-illegal-power-lines-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bescoms-vigilance-cell-cracks-down-on-illegal-power-lines-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"Bescom\u2019s vigilance cell cracks down on illegal power lines in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bescom\u2019s increased vigilance and crackdown on those drawing illegal power connections has resulted in a 45 per cent jump in the number of cases booked in 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>The state-run power company stepped up its vigil after the rise in electrical accidents and deaths in the city due to illegal power lines.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020-21, about 2,610 cases were booked and it increased to 4,730 by 2021-22. Officials with the vigilance cell told DH that a majority of the cases were booked against those who had drawn illegal connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bescom\u2019s increased vigilance and crackdown on those drawing illegal power connections has resulted in a 45 per cent jump in the number of cases booked in 2021-22. The state-run power company stepped up its vigil after the rise in electrical accidents and deaths in the city due to illegal power lines. In 2020-21, about 2,610 cases were booked and it increased to 4,730 by 2021-22. Officials with the vigilance cell told DH that a majority of the cases were booked against those who had drawn illegal connections.<\/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-518048","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\/518048","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=518048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}