{"id":596606,"date":"2023-08-08T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T04:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=596606"},"modified":"2023-08-08T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T06:40:54","slug":"assaulted-over-steep-bill-bescom-staffer-left-with-broken-tooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assaulted-over-steep-bill-bescom-staffer-left-with-broken-tooth\/","title":{"rendered":"Assaulted over steep bill, Bescom staffer left with broken tooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: While the recently launched Gruha Jyothi scheme may have brought cheer to power consumers in the state, a 28-year-old Bescom meter reader last week faced a customer&#8217;s sudden ire that left him with one tooth less and three others wobbling.<\/p>\n<p>Meter reader Nagaraj Naik, attached with E9 sub-division, Nagawara, was allegedly beaten black and blue by a resident of Govindapura, north Bengaluru, over what the consumer alleged was a high electricity bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: While the recently launched Gruha Jyothi scheme may have brought cheer to power consumers in the state, a 28-year-old Bescom meter reader last week faced a customer&#8217;s sudden ire that left him with one tooth less and three others wobbling. Meter reader Nagaraj Naik, attached with E9 sub-division, Nagawara, was allegedly beaten black and blue by a resident of Govindapura, north Bengaluru, over what the consumer alleged was a high electricity bill.<\/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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596606","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=596606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}