Vegetable vendor kills self after getting â¹8-lakh power bill
A vegetable vendor from Maharashtra's Aurangabad committed suicide after receiving an incorrect electricity bill amounting to over â¹8 lakh for his two-room tin shed house. The state electricity distributor suspended a billing clerk after it was found that meter readings were incorrectly punched at 61,178 KWH instead of 6,117.8 KWH. However, police have registered an "accidental death" case.