KE issued notice on plea against prolonged outages.

KARACHI -- The Sindh High Court on Tuesday put the K-Electric, National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) and others on notice on a petition filed against loadshedding.

A resident of Jahangir Road moved SHC stating that people in his locality had been facing around 12 hours of power outages in a day on account of change of feeder/PMT.

A two-judge bench headed by Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi issued pre-admission notices to the respondents as well as to the advocate general and deputy attorney general for June 2.

The petitioner stated in the petition that he had approached the power utility against loadshedding in the area and the KE said that the...