India, Aug. 4 -- The Odisha Police has issued a strict directive prohibiting its personnel from charging private electric vehicles using electricity supplied to office buildings. The department has also ordered a crackdown on unauthorised power connections from office premises to residential quarters and barracks, citing misuse of government electricity and rising power consumption.Civil Society News

In an official order issued to all Heads of Police Establishments across the state, the department said it had noticed that electricity from office buildings was being illegally extended to residential quarters and barracks in several police establishments.

The order specifically noted that some police personnel have been charging their pe...