The civic body has taken up a survey of optic fibre cables (OFCs) to determine the illegally laid ones. Chief Civic Commissioner Tushar Giri Nath told reporters on Tuesday that Bengaluru Development Minister D.K. Shivakumar had directed the civic body to regularise the illegal OFCs after levying a hefty penalty.
“The survey report will be ready in a week,” he said. Instructions have been given to officers not to allow the digging up of newly laid roads. FIR will be registered against the violators, he said.
Whitefield Rising had lodged a complaint with the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Whitefield), demanding an FIR against CEOs of telecom service providers (TSPs) for laying OFCs illegally and in a way that poses a threat to public safety.
