Belthangady: One electrocuted after touching live wire, another seriously injured
Belthangady, Jan 20: One person electrocuted and another sustained severe injuries after touching live wire while laying the power cable of a private company at Nada in the taluk on Sunday.
The deceased has been identified as Kantharaju alias Shrikant (24) of Maddur in Mandya district and the injured is Sheshadri Kumar (25) of Kunigal.
Cable was laying from a private power unit of Neriya to Guruvayanakere. Just beside their working place, a 33KV power line of the Mescom passes through and when the cable laying work was going on behind the Nada government high school, the workers lifted the electric pole by a crane and the pole connected to the live electric wire. One worker was electrocuted and another seriously injured and admitted to a hospital in Mangaluru.
Belthangady police visited the spot and inspected. Mescom official said that did not have information about the private company's work. To disconnect the power, higher officers have to give permission, he said.
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Waqf Bill anti-secular, will snatch rights of Muslims: Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday described the Waqf (Amendment) Bill as “anti-secular”, claiming that it would snatch the rights of Muslims.
Banerjee, speaking in the assembly, also said the Centre did not consult with states over the matter.
“The bill is anti-federal and anti-secular; it is a deliberate attempt to malign a particular section. It will snatch the rights of Muslims... The Centre did not consult with us on the Waqf Bill,” she said.
The chief minister added that “if any religion was attacked”, she would wholeheartedly condemn it.
Opposition parties have stridently criticised the amendments proposed by the bill in the existing Waqf Act, alleging that they violate the religious rights of Muslims.
The ruling BJP has asserted that the amendments will bring transparency in the functioning of the Waqf boards and make them accountable.
A parliamentary committee has been constituted to scrutinise the contentious bill.
