LAKKI MARWAT: Police have booked three persons including two district councillors on the charges of leading protesters who attacked Pesco offices and damaged its properties.
On February 20, a large number of people from different rural localities had stormed the offices of Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) at the District Headquarters Complex Tajazai. They were protesting against the suspension of power supply to their villages.
The baton wielding protesters had pelted bricks at the offices, shattered window panes, uprooted the main gate and also damaged power transformers.
They also hurled abuses at the Pesco employees and continued hooliganism at DHQ complex, housing offices of government departments the whole day. On the report of Pesco’s Executive Engr Sardar Muhammad Aslam Khan, the police registered a case against district councillors Javed Khan and Khalid Khan and an elder Ajmal Khan under relevant section of law and began investigation.
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