September 27, 2008	Saturday	Ramazan 26, 1429

HYDERABAD, Sept 26: The Hyderabad Electricity Supply Company (Hesco) on Friday severed hundreds of power connections in the residential colony of the Sindh Agriculture University.

The power utility’s action led to an uproar as hundreds of university’s employees and activists of various students’ organizations staged a sit-in against the step.

Speaking on the occasion, leaders of the employees’ action committee, Hussain Bux Veesar, Ghulam Haider Joyo, and others said that inflated bills between 500 and 1,000 units were issued to consumers without any meter reading, which was a great injustice with the consumers.They alleged that even the power supply to those consumers had been disconnected who had already paid their electricity dues. They also threatened to move the judiciary in this regard.

According to sources, power connection of the houses of the vice-chancellor, registrar, director-general agriculture research school and dispensary had also been severed by the Hesco staff.