HYDERABAD, June 5: Chief executive, Hyderabad Electric Supply Company, Tariq Arshad, has denied Hesco employees misbehaved with women in the Sarfaraz sub-division here on Wednesday.

Talking to journalists in his office here on Thursday, the Hesco chief said he had visited three homes in the area with MNA Baji Shamim Akhtar and MPA Farzana Saeed where, he claimed, the women residents admitted that no one had misbehaved with them.

He said the women, however, complained their homes were singled out for metre checking when “everyone in the area is stealing electricity”. He said the Wednesday’s protest demonstration was not spontaneous but a planned one.—Bureau

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