Daijiworld Media Network - Moodbidri (SP)

Moodbidri, May 31: As a person from the town had not remitted water bill since the last six years, the municipal staff had visited his house to cut water supply. The person conerned obstructed them from discharging their duties and tried to assault them. This incident happened at Kotebagilu within the limits of the local municipality on Tuesday May 30 afternoon.

P H Abubakker, resident of Kotebagilu, Marpady, has been accused of behaving rudely with municipal employees. Municipal staff, Ananda Babu, Kartik, Ramesh, Raviraj and plumber, Firoze, had visited the spot to sever water supply to Abubakker's house because of pending bills amounting to Rs 38,405. Reportedly, Abubakker stopped them from doing their work and tried to attack them.

The staff named above had visited Abuabakker's home as part of a drive to cut water supply to buildings, bills of which are pending since long. It is said that when Ananda Babu visited Abubakker's house along with other staff, the latter hurled choicest abuses against him, tried to assault him, and obstructed him from discharging duties.

The municipal staff, in the form of protest, did not attend to their work till the evening. They held protest and demanded action against the guilty. After the municipal chief officer, Sheena Naik, filed complaint with the local police about obstructing government servants from discharging duties and posing death threat, the staff resumed work.