Fed up with the daily power disconnection by Adani Electricity Mumbai Limited, hundreds of Siddharth Colony residents gheraoed AEML’s Tilak Nagar plant on Thursday for more than 13 hours. Residents claimed that AEML acted inhumanely and disconnected supply around 4 am on Thursday. Citizens started the gherao at 8.30 am and continued till evening. Tilak Nagar police had deployed personnel along with SRPF platoon as 100-odd employees were held hostage inside the plant due to agitation. A delegation met AEML officials, following which they were given two days’ time to pay the running bills. The gherao was called off at 9 pm after 13 hours. 

Representatives of Siddharth Colony Ghar Hakka Sangharsh Samiti had meeting with AEML officials in presence of DCP (Zone 6) Krishnakant Upadhyay.