Yogesh K Porwar & Avanth Kumar Kankariya
The Shankarapuram police on thursday booked BBMP contractor and BBMP officials concerned for damaging 50 BSNL lines while undertaking drainage work without required permission.
Based on the complaint by S Muralidhar,Sub divisional engineer,BSNL,the police charged Naveen Babu and BBMP officials under Karnataka Muncipal Corporation Act.
Mr.Muralidhar,in his complaint,said that the drainage repair work taken up by Prasanna,employee of contractor Naveen at Rangarao parallel road near Jnanajyothi school damaging 50 lines.
The damaged lines includes school,bank,college, government office,hospital and many VIP numbers.This has incurred a huge loss to the BSNL .
Inquiry by BSNL officials found that Prasanna has neither informed the BSNL not taken required permission from the BBMP.This drainage work has been taken up in collusion with the BBMP officials concerned .
The BSNL department filed a report with the 24th Additional City Metropolitan Magistrate court and obtained a permission to file a detailed probe.