An electrician suffered bleeding wounds when a man attacked him with a knife at Wadi e Mustafa, Pahadishareef on Friday evening.
According to the police, the victim Jameel, along with a TGSPDCL lineman was rectifying electricity transformer following frequent power outages on Friday at Wadi e Mustafa.
However, throughout the day, the
snag couldn’t be rectified.
A local resident Babu Jani who was angry over the power outages picked up a quarrel with Jameel questioning the inordinate delay in restoration the power supply leading to argument between them.
Soon both of them hit each other and exchanged blows. On noticing it, the local people intervened and dispersed them.