Ludhiana, Sept. 25 -- Tension ran high in the PSPCL focal point office on Tuesday night after several residents agitated over an 11-hour power outage in the area and engaged in a heated spat with workers.

The confrontation occurred when a group of residents stopped a grid maintenance vehicle at the railway line near the focal point office of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) while the team was on its way to restore electricity.

According to officials, the prolonged outage was triggered by a technical fault in the 220 KV transmission lines at Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) grid at Jamalpur. Due to this, the power supply was disrupted from around 1 pm in the afternoon and was fully restored by midnight, leaving sever...