Nashik : The MIDC police have registered a case against a contractor associated with a piped gas company in Nashik city for allegedly drilling an underground bore without obtaining prior permission or approval from the local authorities.
Based on a complaint, the police have booked the contractor under sections 125 (acts endangering human life or personal safety of others), 324(5) (mischief) and 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke a breach of public peace) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The complainant alleged that the contractor and his worker carried out bore-drilling work on the road in front of his industrial unit in the Ambad MIDC area on Nov 6 and 7, without obtaining permission from the authorities concerned. A police officer said that as per the complainant, the cable damage caused a direct loss of Rs 2.2 lakh. Furthermore, the resulting power outage disrupted the plant’s production line, causing an estimated loss of Rs 3.5 crore to the manufacturing unit.
The illegal drilling resulted in severe damage to an underground electrical cable supplying power to the industrial unit of the complainant.
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A senior officer of the MIDC police station said they are investigating the case. “The contractor will soon be identified and called for inquiry in connection with the allegations levelled against him,” the officer said. The situation escalated when an officer from the affected industrial firm confronted the contractor regarding the unauthorised work, only to be verbally abused. Download the TOI App.