VEHARI, Nov 28: A Mepco SDO, a line superintendent and seven other employees were booked on Thursday for illegally removing the electricity meter of a retired police officer at Burewala.

Meanwhile, Wapda employees observed a one-day strike against the registration of a case against their colleagues.

Shah Muhammad had received a notice from the Burewala Mepco SDO that his electricity meter was out of order. The next day SDO Dildar Husain along with a Mepco team came there, trespassed his house and misbehaved with the women inmates. The Mepco team left the house and escaped when the area people gathered there.

Later, Shah Muhammad got a stay order from a court for not removing the meter of his house. The following day, the SDO, the line superintendent and seven other Mepco employees again came to his house and made an attempt to remove the meter despite the stay order.