SPDCL warns farmers against putting up electric fencing around fields illegally

Following the death of two engineering students due to electrocution after coming into contact accidentally with electric fencing arranged without any permission by a farmer to save his crop from wild animals like boars and deers at Pedda Mangalaram village, the authorities of Southern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Ltd have appealed to farmers against such illegal acts.

The authorities of TGSPDCL said on Saturday that putting up electric fencing with GI (galvanised iron) wire would lead to life-threatening accidents. According to them, two youths came into accidental contact with such electric fencing put up around the farm field of one B. Penta Reddy in survey number 330, outside Pedda Mangalaram village of Chilkur section in Moinabad mandal.

The farmer had put up the fencing to save his standing paddy crop from the wild animals. The authorities said that electric fencing was illegal and unauthorised act and punishable under Section 135 (theft of power) of the Electricity Act 2003, since it threatens the lives of humans as well as animals.

It was also punishable as a criminal act under Section 106 (1) of the BNS 2023, the TGSPDCL authorities said.