LARKANA, Feb 8: A large number of the city areas remained without electricity for almost eight hours due to a fault in the operation and 66KV grid station on Thursday.

The areas affected by the long electric breakdown included Bunder Road, Shahi Bazaar, Resham Gali, parts of Darri Muhalla and others.

According to Hesco personnel at 66KV grid station, the breakdown was the result of a request from the operation department for the repair of some faults in the city areas.

They said that an 11KV line also tripped due to some faults and it was also repaired.

COURT: Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali of Sindh High Court (SHC), Larkana circuit, has ordered DPO, Larkana, on Thursday to serve show cause notices to two SHOs for illegally detaining a man at their police stations.

The orders came after Khuda Bakhsh Jatoi was found illegally detained at the Civil Lines police station of Larkana by a raiding party of the SHC led by a raid commissioner Qazi Abid Hussain on Wednesday.

The SHC judge had ordered the raid in response to an application by a relative of the detainee. It was also revealed that earlier the detainee was kept at the Taluka police station for five days.