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Case filed against man for threatening BESCOM and CHESCOM engineers

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A man from Tumakuru is accused of impersonating an official to extort money from BESCOM and CHESCOM engineers in Bengaluru.

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Through the Reader lens: A man identified as Raghunandan from Tumakuru allegedly posed as a special officer to the Energy Minister to extort engineers. He reportedly threatened assistant executive engineers Surya Prakash and Srinivas Kumar of BESCOM and superintendent engineer Somashekar of CHESCOM with transfers if they did not meet his demands for money. A formal FIR has been registered at the Vidhana Soudha police station.

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All filed from IndiaNamed India · IN-KA · BESCOM · CHESCOM · Somashekar · Srinivas Kumar · Surya Prakash · Raghunandan · Vidhana Soudha Police Station

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