{"id":617986,"date":"2023-11-18T09:21:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T03:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=617986"},"modified":"2023-11-18T09:55:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T04:25:40","slug":"ex-karnataka-cm-kumaraswamy-pays-over-rs-68000-fine-for-stealing-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ex-karnataka-cm-kumaraswamy-pays-over-rs-68000-fine-for-stealing-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy pays over Rs 68,000 fine for &#8216;stealing power&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said on Friday that he has paid a fine of Rs 68,526 for drawing electricity from an illegal connection to illuminate his JP Nagar residence here during Deepavali, but termed it as &#8220;unjust and excessive&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>However, the JD (S) state unit president protested the way the fine amount had been calculated and found flaws in the FIR registered against him. <\/p>\n<p>Kumaraswamy, son of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, alleged a political witch-hunt against him for being vocal against the ruling Congress government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said on Friday that he has paid a fine of Rs 68,526 for drawing electricity from an illegal connection to illuminate his JP Nagar residence here during Deepavali, but termed it as &#8220;unjust and excessive&#8221;. However, the JD (S) state unit president protested the way the fine amount had been calculated and found flaws in the FIR registered against him. Kumaraswamy, son of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, alleged a political witch-hunt against him for being vocal against the ruling Congress government.<\/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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617986","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=617986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}