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Mumbai: Reliance to cut power to 3,250 homes in Chembur

Residents to sit in protest today; police force to be deployed in large numbers to maintain law & order

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Residents from a Chembur colony are expected to come on to the roads today to agitate after Reliance Energy announced that it would stop power supply to 3,250 customers who have not paid their electricity bills amounting to Rs 63 crore over the past 10 years.

'Extreme step'
Reliance said in an official statement that it would take the extreme step under section 56 (1) of Electricity Act-2003) as repeated efforts to get residents of Chembur's Siddharth Colony to settle their long-pending dues had failed.

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