Summary People are burying their loved ones who succumbed to electrocution on Eid days: Waseem Akhter
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Mayor Karachi Waseem Akhter on Monday reached Darakhshan police station to register a case against K-Electric for their alleged negligence which caused death of 30 on the occasion of Eid.
As per details, mayor said how would be this Eid as people are burying their loved ones who succumbed to electrocution.
He said K-Electric is playing with the lives of people and I would pursue the FIR till end.
However, police officials refused to register the compliant, objecting that the names of certain individuals cannot be mentioned in the FIR, he added.
“After drafting the FIR, they [police] stayed short of completing the procedure because I wanted to nominate KE’s owner, CEO and chairman in the report,” said the mayor.
“Now they are saying that the FIR would only be lodged in presence of deceased’s families… we’ll wait for them to arrive and won’t leave the premises before completing what we came here for.”
On the other hand Sindh government has declared the situation as normal. Provincial minister Saeed Ghani said K-Electric does not fall under Sindh government and it cannot register a case against the power provider.
While K-electric held city government and poor management responsible for the unavailability of power.
