{"id":200934,"date":"2026-05-18T19:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=200934"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:51:39","slug":"negligence-during-power-shutdown-leads-to-pdd-employees-death-in-kishtwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/05\/18\/negligence-during-power-shutdown-leads-to-pdd-employees-death-in-kishtwar.html","title":{"rendered":"Negligence during power shutdown leads to PDD employee&#8217;s death in Kishtwar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-199972\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/05\/dead-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/>Jammu: Alleged negligence during a power shutdown has reportedly led to the death of an employee of the Power Development Department (PDD) in Kishtwar, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the deceased\u2019s family members and local residents today staged a protest outside Kishtwar police station, demanding strict action against those responsible for the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the employee was repairing an electricity line while working on a pole when the power supply was suddenly restored, leading to his death due to electrocution.<\/p>\n<p>The family members said that officials of the electricity department were responsible for the incident, questioning how the power supply could be resumed despite knowing that the employee was still carrying out repair work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu: Alleged negligence during a power shutdown has reportedly led to the death of an employee of the Power Development Department (PDD) in Kishtwar, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. According to Kashmir Media Service, the deceased\u2019s family members and local residents today staged a protest outside Kishtwar police station, demanding strict action against those &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":199972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/05\/dead-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200946,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200934\/revisions\/200946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}