{"id":550074,"date":"2023-01-25T11:24:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T05:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=550074"},"modified":"2023-01-25T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T09:16:07","slug":"bengaluru-bescom-lineman-electrocuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-bescom-lineman-electrocuted\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: Bescom lineman electrocuted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 28-year-old Bescom lineman allegedly died of electrocution while he was repairing a transformer near Gopalapura police chowki on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Goutham, a resident of Sunkadakatte, and two colleagues attached with the Bescom office near Anjana talkies on Magadi Road were on night duty from Sunday. Following a call to the Bescom helpline about sparks from a transformer, the three went to the spot around 9 am.<\/p>\n<p>Goutham climbed a pole, but the power supply to the pole was not turned off. He was rushed to a hospital where he died while under treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a complaint filed by Goutham&#8217;s father, Magadi Road police have taken up a case against the executive engineer, assistant\u00a0executive engineer, and junior engineer for negligence causing death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 28-year-old Bescom lineman allegedly died of electrocution while he was repairing a transformer near Gopalapura police chowki on Monday. Goutham, a resident of Sunkadakatte, and two colleagues attached with the Bescom office near Anjana talkies on Magadi Road were on night duty from Sunday. Following a call to the Bescom helpline about sparks from a transformer, the three went to the spot around 9 am. Goutham climbed a pole, but the power supply to the pole was not turned off. He was rushed to a hospital where he died while under treatment. Based on a complaint filed by Goutham&#8217;s [&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-550074","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\/550074","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=550074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}